Siem Reap - Sihanoukville - Bangkok. September 2014
Having returned from Cambodia. I want to share my impressions about this amazing country. For someone, my story may be interesting.
I'll start with our tour, which was bought in Moscow. Visas to Cambodia were made by ourselves, at the Embassy of Cambodia.
The flight from Moscow to Bangkok, connecting with a domestic flight took 6 hours. In Siem Reap 3 days -2 nights, of which 1 full day, because the arrival in Siem Reap was late (18:15), and flew to Sihanoukville at 13:00.
We spent 8 days in Sihanoukville. After a rest in Sihanoukville, an air-conditioned car arrived for us and after 5 hours we were at the airport in Phnom Penh. From Phnom Penh we flew to Bangkok at 16:30. We spent the night at the hotel, and in the morning (8:40) there was a transfer that took us to the airport. Then we returned, after a rest, to Moscow.
Since there was an early booking of the tour, during these six months we reviewed a lot of information through the Internet. We gleaned a lot of information from Vinsky's forum.
When we flew to Cambodia, we already knew which temples we would visit in Siem Reap, which excursions to take in Sihanoukville.
In Siem Reap we were in the Angkor temple complex. Before lunch, we looked at 1. Angkor Wat . ; 2. bayon; 3. Preah Khan; 4. Ta Som; 5. Bantey Sape saw 1. Bantey Srei and Ta Prohm in the afternoon.
All the temples made an indelible impression on us. It's like in a fairy tale - you open each temple in the jungle according to your own vision.
In the future, we want to come to Cambodia again and visit: Beng Mealea, Koh ker, Phnom Kulen, Kbal Sream. temples are located at great distances (tuk-tuk is not so comfortable).
In Siem Reap we were taken to the shop "Senteurs d Angkor Shop" - they bought cosmetics: soap + lip balm, face cream, tea. All the ingredients are natural and also packed in a beautiful package of palm leaves. stingray and crocodile skin.
And after visiting the temple complex, we stopped at a village where they sell oil paintings.
We took an excursion in Sihanoukville: Kbal Chai waterfall + 2 temples. We were at the waterfall in the very rainy season - it was roaring and full of water. Our guide, Vladimir, says and saw in the photographs that in the dry season the waterfall is not so full-flowing.
The temples in the mountains were also struck by their beauty. All the time they were amazed how such splendor could be made from stone.
In Sihanoukville, we were a little unlucky with the weather (but we knew that we were going during the rainy season). Out of 8 days, 4 days were without rain. the beach is a lot of beggars and dirty), we hired a tuker for 2 days and went to the distant Otres beach (clean sand and practically no sellers of any small things and beggars). And another 1 day there was an excursion to the waterfall.....This is something beyond words (there is something to compare was in Thailand and Vietnam), cool massage, got a lot of pleasure.
Special thanks to the guides Lin in Siem Reap and Vladimir in Sihanoukville for their support in all matters that we had and for conducting interesting excursions.
