On Tonle Sap Lake and the Mekong river

It’s time to leave Siem Reap - a city happy to enjoy such great monuments, thanks to which it lives. More than a million tourists a year trample away  these traces of the past, and local and foreign "treasure hunters" do not respect the heritage stealing  whatever they can. Fortunately, the govern...

Angkor, The Apsaras

After a day of tourist  "work" tourist we went to dinner with Apsara dance show. Below is the Wikipedia information about the Apsaras. In a  hall for about 800 people  a buffet dinner was served, after which there were performances. As usual, I try to excuse ourselves  that the pictures do not ref...

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...