Tagged With "Siem Reap"

The infamous British Air Passenger Duty, which can add as much as $450 to airfare for a family of four flying trans-Atlantic to or from Britain, may have met its match in the Scottish vote against independence earlier this fall.   Seem...

Grand Escapades shares some evocative aerial images of the Angkor temples in Cambodia.

  Being single means sometimes I travel alone.  Generally speaking this means I have no one to share costs with—hotels, car rental and gas. But otherwise expenses such as airfare and restaurants are the same.   One standout where...

Marilyn Jones visits a scene of great beauty and history, but one that will also be familiar to fans of Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, Tomb Raider.

In the final post of a series, Marilyn Jones visits the Citadel of Women, in a 10th-century complex that was originally Hindu.

Sunrise is an hour away as I make my way along the wide pathway to Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world located just north of Siem Reap. I am joined by 15 other Exodus Travels tourists and our guide Vanney. On the edge of a reflecting pool hundreds of other visitors jockey for position to get the best photo of the sun rising over the temple. Angkor Wat was built in the first half of the 12 th century. Estimated construction time is 30 years. Built by King Suryavarman II...

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Marilyn Jones finds that a favorite travel organizer is now offering private 'Bubbles' for travel during the pandemic.

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Qantas is making long-range plans—which could become short-range—to fly its A380s again, one of few airlines to do so.

In Cambodia's Khmer temple city, Judy discovered an eye-catching monument of considerable size.

These ruins are what remain of a once magnificent temple in the jungles of Cambodia, but they still get plenty of attention today.

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Judy Barford shares pictures of one of the world's greatest religious monuments.

Jayita visits Cambodia and finds some familiar and unfamilar dishes

Jayita explores the temples of Siem Reap in Cambodia and listened to 'the songs of the stones in the silence of the forest.'

Jayita finds there is nothing small about the Siem Reap 'small circuit temple tour'

Jayita visits a charming fishing village in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and is impressed with the details of village life and people

We travelers are very familiar with all of the great travel sights around the world and certainly the magnificent Angkor Wat temple is amongst the very best known. However, perhaps less appreciated is that this much photographed and visited Angkor Wat temple is only one temple (albeit the best!) in the vast Angkor Temple Complex.

Join Marilyn Jones for part 2 of her series of visits to the beautiful ancient temples of Cambodia.

Once known as the "Pearl of Asia," it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina in the 1920s. Phnom Penh, along with Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, are significant global and domestic tourist destinations for Cambodia.

Helsinki is experimenting with autonomous water taxis to link the city and its surrounding archipelago

Jayita visits Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake and encounters the effects of the monsoon season

Sean provides some useful tips for staying in shape during your travels.