The Angkor Wat Temple

Quote: "Angkor Wat - the largest, most important and most famous temple complex of Angkor. The word Angkor is a local form of the word Nokor which comes from the Sanskrit word nagara, meaning city. Wat is the word for temple in all the countries of Indochina and, among others in Burma, and Thailand...

The Angkor, Bayon

Quote:  "Bayon – a Buddhist temple in Angkor Thom, the complex of the historic Angkor, built by King Jayavarman VII. Temple consists of 54 towers decorated with 216 a sad-smiling faced Buddha Avalokiteshvara, which are, perhaps, the image of the king. In 1980-1990, the restoration work carried out ...

Angkor, Ta Prohm

 Our pictures from the temple of Ta Prohm show two things: - the beauty of Khmer architecture and unrelenting aggression of nature in appropriating everything that it previously had been ripped out! Once again we see this extraordinary phenomenon, and once again the delight is not disturbed even by...

Siem Reap night life...

We have started our tour of Cambodia. We are now in  the hands of a Pole - Pawel  – a resident in this country. Together with his  local lady partner he’s been running a travel agency aiming mainly at Poles. We’ve joined a group composed of six Poles, one Frenchman and one Thai. We’ve arrived  in ...

Bangkok means food, though!

 You can do a lot of things in Bangkok . During each stay in the city we discover new places to sightsee, to visit and  enjoy.. But there is one thing that is constant here: the Thai cuisine. No matter what you do the city you always end up savouring wonderful food in one of the  restaurant or simp...

At night things look almost the same in Bangkok...

As we know "almost the same" makes a lot of difference, though... Mourning or no mourning life must go on. Life does not tolerate any vacuum. So after more than a month of limitations in all entertainment, a ban on playing loud music and even a night street vending, it was  allowed to go back to th...

Bangkok in the days of mourning

As always, Bangkok is our base in Southeast Asia. Now we are getting acclimatized here before the trip to Cambodia. This is our eighth visit to the city. Once again, we find a situation different from the other ones. We survived here the great flood, several terrorist attacks, military presence on t...

Bangkok - Amphawa - the floating market

We do not give up and we use our time in Bangkok untill the last moment. .On the last day we go on a trip to Amphawa knowing that we will return to the hotel at the last moment just before departure to the airport. Amphawa is about 80 km  away from Bangkok. There is a floating market. It's kind of...