Last night we enjoyed a bit of culture with Apsara dancing at the BBQ restaurant. Apsara is a dance very close to the Thai style with slow intricate hand movements and balancing on one leg. Each dance appears to tell a story, we saw one which involved an axe-wielding homicidal maniac after a pretty girl. Not as gruesome as I am making out really. Beautiful costumes and girls. Early start for day 2 of the Angkor temples, Banteay Srei was fairly quiet at 7:30 and t...

Hello again and thanks for all your views of our photos and your messages. AGAIN - Please send us a message IF you are following us regularly ..thanks! Today was a sleep in .... er, up at 6am ... and a rest! We have just been walking around Siem Reap (as we did last night - which was ace in 'Pub Street') and taking in the atmosphere. It's a strange old place - I know many people loathe it - it can be un-Cambodian, touristy, annoyingly 'salesy', full of hassles et...

Very early start - our Tuk-Tuk driver picked us up at 4:45 to see the stunning sunrise at Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat is a huge complex of temples and other buildings covering an area of 3,000 square km. It dates back to 9th century and was modified and added to up until the 15th Century. It has swung between the Hindu and Buddhist religions, which is evident from the beheading of many statues. Around its peak Angkor had a population of 1 million, when London's was 50...

Well here we are in Cambodia - Siem Reap! A sweet early flight of less than 2hrs from KL and we were first thru Immigration, collected bags and off (we prepared visa photos etc. before we flew)! Our Tuk-Tuk man from the Mandaly Inn Hotel collected us right on time and whisked us through the outskirts of town and off to the hotel - the warm, fresh air was lovely. After check-in we had a fried rice brunch and relaxed (slept - after all we got up at 02:50 in KL to f...