Sunday, January 23, 2011

23rd Jan, 4 days of Siem Reap & Angkor Wat is a little overkill and gets boring after a while... 2718km

the crazy rush for Angkor Wat tickets every morning at the counter. mostly Korean, Japanese and chinese tourists

decided to get my fortune read at the Angkor National Museum

shake that little red basket of chopsticks and my fortune reads as...

Enjoyable life. Despite any illness, need no worry. All in the family will be happy and have good lucks. LONG JOURNEYS WILL BE UNDERTAKEN SAFE AND SOUND. Desires will be fulfilled. Patient recovering. Legal case in your favour. All is good for you.
 OK Mamemo and daddy, you can relax and not worry now.
a zillion photos of Angkor Wat and other temples so shant waste time sorting thru them now...

i met a really nice Shanghainese guy who was travelling alone.
on the first day while visiting the temples around Angkor, kept meeting this asian guy at alot of the temples. I rmb him cause i asked him to take a photo for me once and kept seeing him around. somewhere around the afternoon after meeting him again for dunno how many times, i decided to say hi and turns out he is from Shanghai! chatted with him a little and got to know that he was travelling alone and had hired a tuk-tuk for 3 days. wanted to ask him if i could join him but didnt dare to. anyway we said goodbye, and i told myself i shant be so humji and jus ask him if i ever see him again later.

about 10mins later, i saw him again! guess its fate, so i decided to go and ask him if i could join him! didnt noe how to ask at first but in the end he turns out to be a really nice guy and said ok immediately! ended up travelling with him the next 2 days to visit the temples and having dinner together at a US$3 buffet place, and 2 other nice cafes around town.

really glad i decided to ask him about joining him as i made a good friend thru this 3 days and got to learn alot from him as well! =D

the Angkor pass... had photo taken so that you cannot get a 2nd-hand ticket from random seller


i normally buy these for 500 riels/piece, but foreigners always get scammed into buying it for more than 2 times the price (USD1/3 pieces) and they still happily buy it.

huge gold-dealing shops around the Siem Reap markets...

makeshift carpark system in the local market. they basically put a tag on your bicycle and give you a receipt. pay 500riels when you leave and supposedely they are responsible for your bicycle. not sure what happens if it gets lost though...

roasted bananas and bananas+rice wrapped in leaves

no idea why but the bananas and rice looked red. prob some sauce that they splatter over it.

the cheap guesthouse that i stayed in Siem Reap. USD4/night with shower, Wifi and 2 beds!

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