Location: Siem Reap, Cambodia
Participant: Me and darling
Calefare: Peter and ah Kun (not in photo)
0430, sis sent us to KL sentral to take skybus to LCCT. I had a small shock when sis told me that for international flight, we should check in 2 hours earlier. After checking the terms and condition behind the booking ticket, realize that 45mins is enough. relief~
We had our breakfast at Marrybrown, checked in and voila, we are on the plane with mask
2 hours sleeping in the flight, and we reached the airport of Siem Reap. A small, clean and beautiful airport.
Coming out from the airport, we were thinking to change some riel. There is one counter in the airport but when we see the rate, it's 1USD to 3800riel. The rate is not too good, so we didn't exchange. Once we stepped out from the airport, there is another exchange counter and the rate was 1usd to 4000riel! Luckily we didn't change the money in the airport.
We were surprise to see darling's name and my name at the arrival gate. Apparently, the hotel has the service to fetch us from the airport to the hotel, but we were unaware of this service. In the end, we follow the tuk tuk driver to our hotel.
This is our tuk tuk driver, Sor Jin. We booked his service thru here
The rate is 13usd per day, with lots of cold towels and mineral water provided.
Upon arriving our hotel, Angkor Star, Sorjin told us that he will be unavailable for today and his brother Soryar will be our driver for the day. However, he will drive a car today. And the best thing is he charge us only 15usd instead of the normal 25usd! Dirt cheap dirt cheap!
While waiting for Soryar to fetch us at 0930, we wander around the area, taking pictures with the newly opened Maybank there. And we went into the newly opened KFC ending up snacking on popcorn chicken and the free pepsi provided by KFC.
We were surprise that Soryar came with a minivan and off we go to Tonle Sap, the largest lake in SEA.
The shops along the road
The boat fee cost us 15usd per pax. Heartache!!! Well, since we are already there, we should just go for it :)
The boatman's children
On the lake, it's the floating village. The houses are built on the boat or platform that are floating.
We stop by a large boat, it has a restaurant, a small exhibition room, a small crocodile farm, a small area that rear catfish and souvenir shop.
A boathouse is very small, but the whole family stays in there. Salute. The life there is not easy. Especially, with the very very very hot weather.
The village is basically a fishing village and from what I see, they sleep on their free time :P, well, I see a lot of people sleeping in their boathouse.
I should sleep now. Stay tune for the 2nd post
