Happy holidays to those of you about to set off! And hello again, from Siem Reap! We have had a day off from Templing today, although we woke up around 5:30 am. We Had an early breakfast - I had banana pancakes with honey..yum! and Sheryl had fruit salad - colurful, tasty and healthy! Then we went exploring. We visited (on the Wat Bo side of the river) a small private house which a gent called Dy Proeung has built a mini Angkor Wat! See our pictures - a real lab...

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...

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...