Posts Tagged ‘Angkor Wat’

The hidden Gem of Cambodia’s North East

16 November 2010 by

Following on from a recent article in the travel section of the Guardian newspaper, What’s New in Cambodia?, we at Experience Travel have produced a new itinerary entitled Cambodia’s North East, a tour which offers the more adventurous traveller a fantastic opportunity to explore this hidden gem.

Close to the Laos border, Ratanakiri is a beautifully remote and untouched region of South East Asia, a million miles from the tourists at Angkor Wat and the noise and pollution of Bangkok.

The tour starts with a couple of days touring the spectacular Angkor temples. From there you get completely off the tourist trail, visiting pre-Angkorian ruins in Kampong Thom and Kampong Cham, taking a boat trip to spot Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong River, before spending a few nights in the remote market town of Ban Lung in the forests of Ratanakiri. (more…)

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Siem Reap and the Temples of Angkor

29 June 2009 by

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…)

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Cambodia Documentary

12 May 2009 by

Fantastic documentary on the temples of Angkor. Please ignore the adverts for our (expensive) competition! (By that we mean the travel company and not the lady boy introduction agency… )

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