April, 2010
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Apr 10
Cottons…once again
So, all of a sudden the summer is here. But last thursday when we were hoping to open a new season at Fat Olive it was 13 degrees and rain. So we ended up at Cottons… again.
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Apr 10
Last stop- the local beach
We did not feel like swimming in this water but it was very interesting to see where the local people hang out on the sundays- it looked very chill hanging out in the Shadowed hammocks, sleeping, eating fruit and cockroaches..
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Apr 10
498 YONGJIA LU
During Annas ” barhopping” farewell party, we all fell in love with this cozy little place. The name : 498 Yongjia lu. It is very ” inkognito”, and there is little or none, advertisment for this place online.
They have a bar, and a decent cocktail list. Unfortunately they dont have any food or snacks, but they were totally fine with us delivering food from outside ( tonight we ordered Sushi from Haiku )
They also have a DVD library with tv monitors in the garden, if you just want to stop by for a glas of wine and a dvd.
Mahsa ordering food
Usually, our group is quite fond of wine…but after this weekend, we all felt like drinking tea……
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Apr 10
The crocodile farm
We had some time before we had to go back to Phnom Penh to catch our Shanghai flight so we went to another crocodile farm with some newborn crocodiles up to 4 years.
They were a bunch of very tired crocodiles who hardly noticed us throwing fishes on them but i dont blame them in this heat and their filthy living circumstances.
Prepping up on the crocodile food
He was sleeping like this..
The evil eye..
They just loved sleeping with a open mouth
The baby crocodiles..sooo cute!!
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Apr 10
Last night
There is no lack of restaurants in Siam Rep and after a lot of looking around we found a nice french crepe restaurant called Black wheat which i strongly recommend.
We then ended the night at the backpacker hangout Angkor What on pubstreet in lack of better places to go!
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Apr 10
S-21 Toul Sleng
This museum is the site of a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.
It is very touching to walk around in these buildings to see the photos of the people who were innocently tortured and killed and it is insane this only happened around 30 years ago..
This man told us he was one of the very few survivors- we wanted to ask him more questions but he spoke very little english but what he told us was very touching!
One of the torture benches
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Apr 10
Saturday night @ Helen’s nail spa
A perfect Saturday night with Erika and Frida. Wine , snacks and new manicure and pedicure.
The food and wine was delivered from Nepalikitchen….mmm….mmm….mmm
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Apr 10
Angkor Wat
Time flies and we were a bit stressed when we arrived to Angkor Wat and they told us that it would close in 2 hours so time to speed it up!!
We started with the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom which is the towers with 214 smiling faces and the walls are decorated with carvings of historical events- so beautiful!
Then we took a tuk- tuk to my favorite temple of the day- Ta Prohm which is the original Tomb raider temple where the jungle has not been stalled and gigantic gnarled roots twist and grip the temple walls- it looks unreal!!
After this we went to the biggest and most famous temple- Angkor Wat. It was amazingly beautiful but too packed with people to be truly enjoyed.
To make Angkor Wat in 2 hours is maybe not to recommend but it is workable!
The entrance to Angkor Thom
The entrance to the Bayon temple
At the Ta Prohm temple
At Angkor Wat
Palm tree juice- really sweet but i liked it!
