Butterfly Kisses!

Day 3 in Cambodia:
Floating Village, Tonle Sap Lake, Shopping and journey to Phnom Penh.

So after spending the entire day of day 2 touring ancient Angkor temples, on day 3 we got a chance to visit and behold more cultures and lifestyles of the people in Siem Reap. We headed to the Floating Village which was known for an entire village of people living on boats by itself. As a matter of fact, it was their way of life to bath, cook, wash and do whatever it is on the river (ongoing lake) itself. Let's just say, it was a very poor village and hygiene was not really a priority. But it was a good exposure to see how other people lived in a different enviroment.

Our Tuk2 journey to the jetty. These are wooden houses on stilts across the river.

Washing dishes... and they bath in them too...

This is their kedai runcit.
An elementary school..... floating one at that...
Believe it or not, this is a basketball court.... a FLOATING basketball court....haha.
An amazing floating church
This is what they call 'pindah rumah'. Hahaha, the house is towed by another boat....So it's pretty nice la. If you're sick of the enviroment you're living in, you can always change the scenary.

I love this!!! LOL~! This is how children 'travel' from boat/house to another. In a little tub...haha. Cute?? LOL!
Caught this little fella with a snake...hehehe...
O the cuteness of him! :)
I loved every moment of it! It was so soft and delicate!
Crocodile park....hehehe...

Floating Village.... and this is ony a fraction... It's much bigger and longer...

What is seen here is Tonle Sap Lake! The river is connected to the Lake which happends to be the largest lake in South East Asia? Or Asia itself? (Cant remember)

After that, as we returned, we saw this little fella riding a bicycle. What's so special is that he is not sitting on the seat but behind it. Tehee... guess he wasn't 'tall' enough.

After that... it was all shopping again.... Don't you just love the stuffs and COLOURS??!!


Love the colours!
I found this little lad walking around with no pants, hehe. He's so cute la. He seemed so absorbed by his drink.
Our personal Tuk tuk driver and tour guide during our stay in Siem Reap.


This is our ever friendly host who took care of us at the guest house.


So after the visit to the floating village, tonle sap lake and shopping, we balik to the guest house to pack and have lunch before we embarked on our 6 hour bus ride to Phnom Penh (capital city of Cambodia). Yes, 6 hours! We didn't take the plane because my dad thought it was best to view the country side of Cambodia through the bus, but it was a bad idea. Hahaha, the double decker coach wasn't really a joy ride. It was freaking hot despite the air conditioner and the driver honked like his life depended on it. Hahaha... yes, honking is a very common trade on the roads of Cambodia. So guess what, I couldn't sleep at all but 'suffered' for 6 hours sitting in an 'oven' of noise all the way to Phnom Penh!!! No pictures though cause I was too restless to even hold the camera till the next day...

Hehehe... so that's all folks...

Upcoming will be on day 4.

So till then, have a nice day and God bless!

Skip a dee doo daa....

I was trying to blog about day 2 of my trip to Cambodia when I realised that I had more than 300 pics just on day 2. And at the same time have 15 videos made on that day. Just by sorting out the pics is already enough to give me a headache! Let alone trying to upload the videos unto Youtube. I wanted to make day 2 into 3 parts but looks like it'll have to be 4 or even 5!! And I am only planning to upload the a few nice ones but most of them are NICE and there are just too many to choose. ARGH!!! So much for telling myself to finish posting my entire 6 days trip in within this week. If everything goes well, I might only finish posting the entire day 2 entries within this week. :S

GAH!!

Let's hope I can get my mind in shape...
Classes have just begun, let's hope I'll make it through too...

God bless!

Cherry Blossoms in My Day

Currently Listening to: Bunga-bunga Cinta by Misha Omar

Okay... I am so trying to blog about my trip to Cambodia and since it's gonna be super long with tons of pics, I think I'll do it by day and parts (taking my own sweet time). Another reason is because until the camera/memory card is properly fixed, I can't post a lot of pics (since half of the pics file can't be open and viewed!). The pics from day one are safe but half of the pics from day two have gone MIA. Which is the worst of all, since day two is the critically important one because it was the a whole day filled with pics of our ancient temple tour!!! Blessedly the pics of of our tour in Angkor Wat is ok but the other many pics of the other temples especially BAYON temple has gone "kaput". -_-" Sad I know... hopefully can be fixed! Pics from day 3 have also gone MIA as well as some pics from day 4 (half of it ok). Day 5 and 6 got la...here and there.... Haish.... so what la... :( :( Hence I shall take my time in blogging on the first day (put them in parts) and hopefully before I get to the second day, the pics will be fixed.

So here goes....

Day 1 in Cambodia (Part 1): Arrival in Siem Reap (Checking in and shopping)

Our TUK TUK ride... Throughout our stay in Cambodia... we travel through Tuk Tuk aje... It was a new and exciting experience. I actually prefer it compared to a car!

FYI, traffic there is...errrr really "FUYOH"!!! Hahaha... I didn't take a pic of it to show you now (Maybe later, still have lots of pics to sort out), but just to let you know, helmets are not compulsary! And only our Tuk tuk driver pakai je (and less than 10% of the motorcyle drivers that I've seen wear them). The traffic is 'easy going', meaning, you can cut like nobody's business and no proper left and right. If you think Malaysia's traffic is bad... you should so go there. You can have a heart attack driving there. LOL! You can hear people honking ALL THE TIME! It's like a norm to just masuk any lane. Most roads don't even have the middle line in the road to separate then jalan. So no real rules... can masuk or jalan, just go....hahah.

I love to do this... dangle my feet out of the Tuk Tuk. As dangerous as it seems, it is fun!

Our Guest House/ Hotel... It's nice and cozy...

The reception gave us this.... for a simple reference in our stay there. :)

The makan place.... nice food!

Khmer specialty... It's called Amok!! NICE!


Lunch there was great... we practically ate a lot at the hotel cause it wasn't advisable for tourist to eat outside. Bear in mind... the food outside are 'potent' ahem.... Each plate or order usually cost 3 USD. And a family meal usually go up to 10USD. So it's like 30 over Ringgit per meal. Hahaha... FYI, USD currency is an norm there and we used it more (as tourist) compared to the local currency (Riel). So hence as cheap as things can be... remember... it is in USD...so have to darab 3....haha.

Next... We headed over to go for SHOPPING at the local Central Market (for tourists). There are no malls Siem Reap (only in Phnom Penh and itu pun kecik btw)...hahaha.





And here we have my mum who was just enjoying herself shopping and haggling all the way... First day aje dah banyak beli barang...hahah.

Jewelry there is REALLY cheap (rubies, sapphires). My mum was happy gila....hahahaha... Bought a lot....LOL!

Okies, I dah a bit penat....hahaha. Will continue part 2 of Day 1 another time. This whole post baru only sampai the afternoon of day 1. There are still more activities to blog about on day one which is the lovely experience of our first SUNSET at the top of PHNOM BAKHENG temple (overseeing everything) and the first view of Angkot Wat!!

Wanted to post one last picture to show a glimpse of what is to come for Part 2 of Day 1, but I'm, having trouble in dragging the picture down so can't post it up here to show you what's installed next. It's a picture of me on top of the Phnom Bakheng temple before sunset... :P

Aniways....heheh. Have a nice day and God bless! HUGS!