We arrived about 10 in the morning and our tree house was not available until 2 so we, with PiSey, wandered around. We visited the central shopping area, the night bazaar (closed during the day of course) and the river. The Villa Siem Reap (which offers the treehouse as a room) has built a new place outside the city called Sojourn where Anthony and Fiona have built 10 wonderful bungalows and accompanying restaurant. We visited the bungalows, Ellen fell in love with it so we decided to shift after 3 days in the tree house. Nearby is an old temple - but totally deserted because we are now in a quite rural part of Siem Reap.
How we got there
Takeoff from Changi - Taxi
Takeoff
Climb
Climb
Climb, 766 m
Climb 2559 m
Leveling at 8419 m
Crusing at 9715 m
Nice clouds
A few islands off the coast of Cambodia
And mainland Cambodia
Crusing at 9700 m
Starting descent = at 4545m
4150 m
1472 m
Approach at 640 m
Approach at 635 m
Approach at 634 m
Approach at 626 m
approach at 219 m
Once down and through customs - we had to get around. Villa Siem Reap provided a Tuk tuk and driver - here is our man PiSey - what a terrific guide
Villa Siem Reap: the wonderful place Anthony and Fiona made
Little Kids
Big kids
Carrying charcoal
Cambodian Peoples' Party
One of the fun parts about staying with Anthony and Fiona at the Villa Siem Reap is the information and help provided by staff. Our tuk tuk driver, Pisey, recommended we stop and look at this temple area. It was totally deserted and we were able to walk about, look, and enjoy this 12th century architecture This is one of the buildings near our Sojourn residence
The temple - back door
The front door to the old temple
Looking straight in - The front of the temple
Looking through doors
and through windows
Looking through the temple door
Looking through doors
Looking out the temple window
If you know me, you know that spiders have an interesting affinity with my camera. Without tripod or macro lens, this guy provided an interesting challenge. A daddy longlegs hiding in the window
An old temple building
Hiding in the corner of another temple window was a St. Andrews cross spider - without stabilimenta
The temple
Adjacent to the old buildings was a more recent working temple and monestary. And the Buddha inside the temple
A local monk
Driving back to town and the treehouse, we drive along the Siem Reap River. Here are colorful reflections
More reflections
and more reflections
Ellen at the Siem Reap Villa, with fresh lime soda - waiting for our room key
While outside is a lady with a stylish hat
Another others - displaying a dust mask -actually the road dust was pretty bad
On our way to the treehouse, more reflections in the Siem Reap River
More reflections
Our new home - a treehouse with a view
Inside our home
Living room
The deck without an Ellen
Ellen and our snack
If you purchase tomorrow ticket to Angkor Wat at 5pm the previous day, you can enter for sort-of free (actually you paid for the ticket. Pisey took us to a mountain to climb in order to watch the sunset. And what a sunset.
Reflections of Siem Reap
We passed over the Dragon Bridge
The first thing we encountered inside the Angkor Wat grounds was the mote around the main temple area
More mote
Here was a small ensemble of land mine victims - playing along the path to the top of the mountain
Ellen watching the sunset
There is a balloon that you can rise above the occasion and see all things
Early sunset
later
later
later
later
When the sun says goodbye
another goodbye
Its over
We drove back and the temple lights were bathing some remote temples
another view
The lights rotate through colors of red, green and blue (or maybe white)
C. Frank Starmer