Tag: Angkor
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Third Time’s a Charm in Cambodia
This post will be short and sweet as I’ve written about Angkor temples twice before and this trip wasn’t much different: temple-hopping during the day, chill time in the evenings or on days off, and classic Cambodian fatigue-inducing heat and humidity. Our temple-hopping schedule was: The only real item of note is that we scheduled our trip to align with a friend who wanted to see the sunrise over Angkor Wat on the equinox, which is evidently significant. Honestly, I didn’t notice anything markedly different other than the fact that there were several thousand people more than usual, creating a…
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Bangkok, Cambodia, and Thai Islands
Bangkok Becca, Michael, and I flew into BKK on a pleasant Friday afternoon and the two of them were immediately introduced to the urban jungle of Bangkok as we suffered through the first of many hour-long taxi rides through the massive city with its dense, standstill traffic. After finally reaching our hotel, checking in, and getting some food, we decided to go to the Chatuchak weekend market. Friday night at the market was very different from Saturday or Sunday; only a subset of the clothes shops were open and all the non-clothes shops were closed, there was very little food…
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Cambodia
After 4 months in Thailand – almost entirely in Chiang Mai – I finally moved on to another country! Clearly I hadn’t envisioned this schedule when I set out last year, but I have been very pleased at how things have panned out. I need to be back in Chiang Mai in April for 2-3 weeks for Songkran and other merriment (and some work), so I know I’ll be back, but it still felt really weird to be leaving my new home. The best summary I can give is that these days I can’t read half of my Facebook newsfeed…
