Tagged With "Angkor Wat in Cambodia"
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Cambodian Street Food
Jayita spends a few days discovering the local food scene, and navigating currency exchange
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The World of Wat Pho, Bangkok
PHeymont learns that Wat Pho is far more than just the Temple of the Reclining Buddha
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Bangkok: Emerald Buddha and Grand Palace
Thailand's most important temple shares a large compound with the Grand Palace of the Thai monarchy
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Feeling the 'Spirits' in Siem Reap
Jayita explores the temples of Siem Reap in Cambodia and listened to 'the songs of the stones in the silence of the forest.'
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Siem Reap: the 'Small Circuit'
Jayita finds there is nothing small about the Siem Reap 'small circuit temple tour'
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Cambodia's Kulen Mountains
Jayita tours a beautiful mountain area, with wide vistas from its low elevations, and delights to be had along the way
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Kulen Waterfalls, Cambodia
Jayita's journey in the Kulen Mountains continues with a visit to the falls and a nearby temple
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Kampong Phluk, Cambodia
Jayita visits a charming fishing village in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and is impressed with the details of village life and people
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Angkor Temple Sights, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 30, 2014: The Hotel Pool, Cambodia
It is pretty much what most of us will see on a daily basis if we are travelling in a warm climate. It is the life saver at the end of a hot dusty day our on the road.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 23, 2014: The sleeping cat, Angkor Temples, Cambodia
We were walking through the endless rooms, spaces and galleries of the temples in the huge Angkor Wat temple complex and came across this cat, sleeping in the pleasant sunshine and dappled shadow of a blind window - oblivious of all...
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Sept. 20, 2016: Angkor Thom, Cambodia
Join Marilyn Jones for part 2 of her series of visits to the beautiful ancient temples of Cambodia.
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Tonlé Sap, villages on the Great Lake in Cambodia
I recently wrote a few words about the floating fisherman's villages in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. After posting that, I was asked by one of the TG Gurus whether I had seen more such villages in the region.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, March 22, 2015: Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat, built by the Khmer King Survavarman II in the early 12th century, is the largest religious monument in the world, and definitely one of the most stunning.
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The Reason To Love Cambodia
My entire body is sticky from sweat and sweet fruit. The vendor had smiled so nicely to me, I felt that a refusal to his insistent sale might be taken as offensive. The pineapple had been tasty and quenched my thirst, but my fingers sticking together.
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The Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, 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.
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Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
Jayita visits Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake and encounters the effects of the monsoon season
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Phu Quoc, Vietnam
Barry Barford visits an island of contrasts in a lesser-known part of Vietnam.
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Off the beaten track in Northern Laos
Where’s that, most people asked when I told them we were off to Laos. And that about sums up the attraction -- I like getting off the beaten track, at home and abroad.
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Why you should visit Borneo
Borneo is a magnificent island full of life and wilderness and is home to some of the most endangered animals in the world. Located off the eastern coast of Malaysia, Borneo combines modernism and forward thinking along with adventure.
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Wat Pho, Bangkok Thailand. Where Gumbo Was #40
The TG audience has become very proficient at solving our travel puzzles! One of Bangkok's great temple complexes.
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Wat Phra Kaew (Jade Buddha Temple), Bangkok, Thailand
Amongst the most magnificent sights in Bangkok is the Wat Phra Kaew temple, or the Temple of the Jade Buddha. It is a riot of gilded and colorful figures in a very concentrated area within the grounds of the King's Grand Palace in Bangkok.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Feb. 25, 2014: Wat Pho, Bangkok, Thailand
Wat Pho is the Temple of the Reclining Buddha statue in Bangkok, adjoining the Grand Palace in Phra Nakhon district. This statue generally is thought to represent the dying Buddha, about to attain Nirvana.
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Wat Sai Thai, Thailand
Jayita shares an excursion to Krabi Island, Thailand and an encounter with a Sleeping Buddha shrine
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Wat Kaeo Korawaram, Thailand
Jayita visits this hilltop temple, of which she says "If the Wat Sai Thai is where the Budhha sleeps, this is certainly where he awakens"
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Bangkok's Very Visible Wat Arun
One of Bangkok's most visible religious sites has a fascinating history, with alternating periods of great attention and neglect
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Tiger Cave Temple, Krabi, Thailand
Jayita undertakes a steep climb up a 1260-step stairway to reach an amazing temple in Thailand