Remember my last post is about my 2nd staycation in SG at D'Kranji Farm ( you may refer to the link shown : http://linnes.blogspot.sg/2015_05_01_archive.html ) and my last adventure post is about my Nepal Trip in Kathmandu ( http://linnes.blogspot.sg/2014_10_01_archive.html ) for this time round I'm going to share about my experience in Cambodia ( Siam Reap ).
Yes this time round I went to Cambodia - Siam Reap.
Is a different kind of experience from Nepal. First of all Nepal need a long flight distance where as Siam Reap only need 2 hour flight, is so much nearer compare to Kathmandu.
But there's something similar which is both people you met in this two different country is very friendly.
This time round I went for 6 days 5 nights and I think is more than enough to travel in Siam Reap.
For singaporean we do not need to apply for a tourist visa. How do I find out is upon our arrival at the airport we went to queue up at the tourist visa application counter and when it's our turn the staff over there at the counter told me that Singapore passport don't need to apply for tourist visa and that's how I find out. Once clear the custom we went to this counter outside the airport for taxi service to get a taxi to our hotel so as usual tell them where are you heading and they will tell you the price and pay them on the spot they don't charge by meter. This taxi we board, the driver is warm enough to welcome us and asked us where we want to go so we show him the map and his not to sure where is it because our hotel that we book is only a year old so not much driver know the exact location of the hotel so he make a call to the hotel to ask where is the exact or correct location.
Once we arrive our hotel before we alight the driver ask us if we're interested to let him be our 1 day driver for the next day or the next few days we're in siam reap and he will bring us to different places and temple and we agreed to let him drive us around for our next day tour. Where did he bring us too I will share more about it with all of you soon.
So as you can see the picture below that's the hotel entrance the hotel doesn't look like normal hotel in fate it like a resort in siam reap most of their hotel is resort style and is so beautiful. Even their airport design also look like resort.
When we're checking in the staff is nice enough to give us some welcome drinks and the room we book is not ready so she spend sometime to explain to us and show us some map and introduce us where we should visit in siam reap.
So about 45 mins later our room is ready and she show us the way to our room and even tell us where is the toilet , safe box etc etc
this view taken outside from our room
This is how the room look like so spacious.
After setting down in the room we rest for awhile as usual before heading out. So around 4 or 5 plus in the evening we headed out for an early dinner at their night market and we took their locate tuktuk out. In Siam Reap, tuktuk is just like their 2nd transport that they use. It's so amazing that their tuktuk just a simple motorcycle and behind just hook a carriage for the passenger to sit and they can sit up till 4 person in the carriage. Don't you find it amazing just a simple vehicle but is helping the locate there to use to help them to earn income for leaving.
Our hotel provide free 3 times tuktuk service for those tourist that stay more than 3 nights. So during the very first day we already used up 1 time because we're going to the night market for dinner. So we just tell the tuktuk uncle which I name the uncle number 08 uncle because of the tuktuk number is 08 each tuktuk over there have their own number so you can easily remember them by the number. The uncle alighted us at this street call : ( PUB Street ) Pub Street is a street where there's a lot of restaurants that service food and beer, some even come with live band perform so basically is a street with lots of different type of pub and restaurants.
went into one of the alley and decided to walk in and have a look at what food they have inside, from the picture above you can tell actually there's quite a number of restaurants and finally we have decided on one and sit down for our dinner.
So we order one of their famous dish in Cambodia which is : AH MOK
Ah Mok is a type of Curry dish is Cambodia that's quite similar to Thai green curry.
Ah Mok is not spicy, not milky, not to thick, not to sweet or salty. In fact they cook with thicker coconut cream, lot of vegetables etc etc .. other then ah mok we did order another dish also the dish is a kind of fish soup with some coconut milk, white carrot in slice, lot of vegetables too.
( Sorry for the blur picture )
After our dinner we when we have a walk around the night market in siam reap their night market is actually walking distance so from pub street you can walk to Art centre night market. Before that while I'm walking there on the way walking from pub street I saw them selling fried worms, spider all kind of insects and I was like omg I don't dare to eat it man..
After few hour of shopping we decided to go back hotel and rest early because the next day we have to wake up very early in the morning for our out day tour at Angkor Wat Temple.
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