Overdue Video Time!!!! Dance: At the buffet restaurant that had been recommended to us by our Tuk-Tuk driver… after the initial Traditional Khmer Music performance, there were also various Traditional Khmer and Aspara dance skits. Here are a couple of them. Beng Melea:
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Cambodia: Overdue
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010One Video! Hah!
Monday, June 21st, 2010So apparently the videos that I take on my camera are smaller than the ones on my flip – therefore they upload much faster. Even so… I only accomplished one video. Voila! On the long road back to Siem Reap from Beng Melea. Calvin was sleeping and I watched people juice sugar cane as we [...]
Monsoon Diaries Guidebook: Cambodia in a nutshell
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Cambodia Reviewed Welcome to Cambodia, a dichotomy worth dissecting; a binary land where diametrically opposed limits of human achievement and human devastation come together. In one minute you’re captivated by the stunningly glorious Khmer civilization both ancient (Angkor Wat) and modern (the Cambodian Royal Palace), while the next you’re sickened by the atrocities committed by [...]
Saying goodbye to Cambodia…
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Gonna miss ya, Cambodia. I’ll be back. – At time of posting in Siemreap, it was 82.4 °F – Humidity: 78% | Wind Speed: 2km/hr | Cloud Cover: scattered clouds
Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Siem Reap
Saturday, June 19th, 2010I took this video yesterday at, I believe, Preah Khan. Sights: Ruins, Marvelous Tree, Khmer Architecture, Lush Vegetation, Really Colorful Butterflies Sounds: Khmer Traditional Music being played just outside the complex, Birds, Rustling of Leaves. It’s moments like these when I could never imagine sitting behind a computer all summer doing web management work. [Except [...]
Beng Mealea: The Indiana Jones experience
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Now playing: John Williams – Indiana Jones Main Theme. Angkor Wat and its surrounding temples may be all tourist attractions, but they’re a level higher than your Disney World fare in terms of adventure. However, nothing beats a 1 and a half hour tuk-tuk drive up north to Beng Mealea, where Lonely Planet describes as: [...]
From Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
Friday, June 18th, 2010Within this post you’ll encounter a really nerdy Myst reference again. But don’t worry, I make up for it with some killer sunset photographs. Let’s backtrack a little, now that we have decent internet access. 2 days ago we got up at 5 am and booked a cab to the Phnom Penh airport. There, a [...]
Siem Reap and the Angkor Temples: Day 1 (yesterday)
Friday, June 18th, 2010Videos are finally here! These are the overdue videos from yesterday. We’re covering every single Wat and Temple and Ruin over the course of three days by Tuk-Tuk. You saw my earlier videos of my experience at Angkor Wat, and here are the rest of them. I didn’t take a video at each and every [...]
Blogging and Fishing in Siem Reap
Thursday, June 17th, 2010So no, I did not post anything last night on our adventures in Siem Reap…. The internet is fatally slow and any video I try and upload fails. I am currently sitting at a computer before we leave for Day 2 in hopes that I can maybe manage one video. On the subject of fishing [...]
Internet is Slow
Thursday, June 17th, 2010Just letting you all know that we took a 50min plane ride from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, Cambodia at 6am in the morning and we just finished the 1st out of a 3 day tour of Angkor Wat and its surrounding temples. We saw: Angkor Wat Angkor Thom Bayon Baphuon Terrace of the Elephants [...]
