Second stop: Cambodia

Second stop: Cambodia

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Phnom Pehn

After a first stop in Borneo, we took the plane from Banjarmasin to Phnom Pehn (difficult to write) the capital of Cambodia. Our first impression we had when we arrived was the crowd. There are a lot of people here! We took a taxi and first of all we decided to find a hotel. It was not very difficult, our taxi driver was able to understand our English and took us to a very nice hotel called the Phnom Pehn hotel. We put our luggage in our rooms and decided to walk a bit in the city.

Quickly, we saw that the capital of Cambodia is an important point. Rivers such as the Mekong and the Tonlé Sap are coming together in that city. There are also a lot of beautiful places and buildings to see! But that was for the next day because we were tired of the flight and decided to go back to the hotel.

The next morning, everybody was ready to walk in Phnom Pehn. We visited the silver Pagoda commonly referred to as Wat Preah Keo. Other buildings we’ve visited are temples such as Wat Phnom ,Wat Ounalom ,Wat Lang Ka and Wat Koh. We asked to a habitant what the meaning was of ‘Wat’ and it just means temple. Between two temples we also visited the National Museum. Very interesting, the guide in the museum said the roof of the museum was the house of one of the biggest group of bats in the world and believe us, when he said that, we were not very confident anymore..

Angkor

We stayed 3 days in Phnom Pehn to visit the city and then decided to go further. We asked to the hotel receptionist which city was also nice to see in Cambodia. Without hesitation, he answered Angkor. So we took the bus in direction of Angkor. 7 hours later, we arrived in Angkor and directly we realized why the receptionist said it was beautiful here, we saw the Angkor Wat (Temple of Ankor). It was a bit a familiar building for us. We know we saw the Temple earlier but we didn’t know where. We found a hotel to eat and sleep to be in a good shape for the next day. After a good night we found out that the same building as the Angkor Wat was used in The Jungle Book (King Louie and the monkey song) but the temple was also present on the flag of Cambodia. The Temple, built in the Khmer Empire was the most important building in Cambodia. Now it still is the greatest religious building in the world with its 65 meter height, it is built on 1 square kilometer.

We also visited Angkor Thom. It was a village but now it is a ruin. In the village we saw a lot of little temples, the elephant place and the terrace of kings. It is very long to describe but if we could help you, the movie of tomb raider had been filmed in Angkor Thom, just watch the movie then ;)

In 4 days we visited lots of temples such as Ta Prohm, Preah Khan, Ta Som and Banteay Srei. Every temple was different but very beautiful. These four days were very difficult, so in the afternoon of the last day we decided to find a typical restaurant. We experimented a lot of different dishes such as Amok Trey, Ban Hoaw, Ka Tieu, Kralan and Loc Lac; typical from Cambodia.

But now it’s time to leave Cambodia. We have to go to our next destination where we will stay longer than in Borneo and Cambodia. See you there dear bloggers