Food in Cambodia

I had expected the food to be like Thai food but was really surprised that it was more Chinese and Vietnamese than Thai and certainly very palatable to our taste bud. But unfortunately, the food are not so cheap with an average meal being about US$3. Vietnamese “popiah”. This seems to be on the menu…

Scams in Cambodia

The situation in Cambodia is much better than Thailand. Here, one can take the tuk tuk or taxi without worries. Most places are safe to walk alone even at night. Only worries might be the land mines:) But there are a still a few scams floating around though. Most blatant is the “Fish Massage” which…

Angkor Wat

Our main purpose of this trip was to run the Angkor Wat International Half Marathon but of course just seeing the temples during the run is definitely not enough and so we made a return visit after the race. We only had half a day so our friendly tuk tuk driver brought us to the…

Siem Reap

We didn’t have much time in Siem Reap but we managed to spend half a day visiting the Floating Village, Kampong Pluk, where the villagers stay in floating houses on the Tonle Sap.  There is even a school and a temple! Children playing in the water. I can’t imagine seeing a scene like that in…

Phnom Penh

We have only a few days to spend in Cambodia yet we took the 6 hours + journey overland from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh just so that we can see the Killing Fields. I know there is something morbid about wanting to look at death but this genocide in Cambodia was huge and something…

Long Route to Phnom Penh

I can’t believe that we took almost the same time it takes 1 to fly to the USA for us to go to Phnom Penh from Singapore! We had booked the Silkair flight from Singapore to Siem Reap instead of flying in direct to Phnom Penh which would have taken just over 2 hours. But…