Vietnam and Cambodia Part 1

For those who didn't know (shame on you), I went to Vietnam and Cambodia 5 months back during the December Holidays. It was a pretty exciting trip, and damn fun. However, I did not upload the photos or blog the trip due to some problems with blogger as well as my firewall. Now that the problems are cleared up, I guess there are no more excuses for me not to put the exciting stuff up.

As it was quite a long trip, I will upload the pictures by parts. Hopefully, I will get around to uploading the photos from my Korea trip as well before they die of old age... Heehehe...

Day One: This was taken in Pho 2000, Vietnam. A delicious lunch of pho and misc side dishes after the meals on the plane... Yummy!

Day Two: Rushing day and night, we finally reached Siam Reap after some scary encounters at the border with some insistent men, street children and more. The buildings are remnants from the colonial era. Here, we were trying to look at some of the local handicrafts at the street markets after we have settled into our hotel.

Lunch at a North Indian Restaurant. We had lots of curries, including this totally gross, thick green mush (which they claim is also a curry).

Since there was so little to do or shop, we booked a 'tutuk' and set off for 'Dawn' mountain (not sure if I got the spelling right here). Supposedly one of the local tourist attractions besides the ruins of Angkor Wat.

'Dawn' Mountain from afar.

It was quite cool taking this picture. I was actually leaning part of the way out of the 'tutuk', with my camera shaking and bobbing away. I was actually more worried some fella would perform a snatch theft on my digital camera than falling off the moving vehicle, hahaha!

The view from the top of 'Dawn' Mountain.

Actually, I was more interested in the rice fields. They stretched away for quite a distance in the background, interspersed only with small patches of human habitations.

This was one of the clearer shot, taken with flash.

This was taken without. Notice the difference? Heehe!

(Hint: The small 'bump' on the right.)

An artsy fartsy shot of moi. Hahahaha!

Well, after a long day fooling around, its time for dinner, street hawkers style along the streets of Siam Reap!

Maggi Mee... Fried... MMMMMM! Yummy!

(Do remember to tell the hawker to lay off the salt and msg!)

*wink wink!*

To our surprise, we found a bubble tea store, just around the corner in the midst of the night market area.

Hahaha! Just right to chill out after our tasty (and salty) dinner.

The owner was quite friendly and accomodating.

(Considering the amount of noise and fuss we made)

Asian travellers being in the minority, it was nice to see a face of the same ethnicity. By the way, the little shop was pretty cosy. So much so we pretty much took off our shoes and took over a third of it all for ourselves.

Thats it for now... I'll continue with Day Three and the pictures of Angkor Wat the next time :)