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Siem Reap and the Temples of Angkor

Monday, June 29th, 2009, by Harriet Clark

The fact that Ben came with me for a full 2 days of walking around temples is testament in itself to the fact that they are rather spectacular and this even though one of the days began at 4.30!

We arrived in Siem Reap having spent the previous few weeks doing a lot of traveling and moving around and so before we had even got here we had decided that we would spend 4 nights here in order to have some chill out time as well as time to explore.  It turns out that that was a very sensible decision as Siem Reap is a very pleasant town to spend some time.  It is much calmer than Phnom Penh and the people are extremely friendly. (more…)