Tuesday, April 8, 2014

The flight from Kuala Lumpur took off at 7am and the journey to Siem Reap lasted 2 hours. I ate some chicken in the plane. After arrival I obtained tourist visa for 20 USD and I met a tuk tuk driver who took me to the Hak's house. I didn't want to stay with CSers in Cambodia because my time was limited and it would have been difficult to adapt my plans to someone else. I found Hak's house on the internet and I decided to stay there because it was cheap and it had many good reviews. I paid 10 USD for one night for a room with air conditioning. Renting a tuk-tuk costed 12 USD per day. It would have been possible to ride to the temples by bike, but I preferred more comfortable way. I was surprised to find out that I could pay with USD everywhere in Siem Reap.
I bought a ticket to the temples for 3 days, the price was 40 USD. The first day I went to the Angkor Wat with the tuk-tuk driver Wong. It was around 30°C that day and sunny, but when we walked towards Angkor Wat the clouds appeared and it started to rain suddenly. We spent some hours walking around and afterwards we returned to the hotel and I slept for some hours.


When I got up it was already evening and I went to a market where I found fish spa, it costed only 3 USD for 30 minutes. I bought two T-shirts and I returned to the hotel where I had Lok Lak chicken for dinner. The following day we went to visit other temples. The guards didn't want to let me enter one temple because I was wearing a short skirt, so we walked around and Wong lifted me up so I climbed the temple from the other side. We took around 700 photos in 3 days, Wong became tired and he said: "one photo one dollar". We bought some coconut juice, Wong had to buy it because the price for tourists was much higher than for the local people. I tried also juice made of the palm tree but I didn't find it tasty. After visiting temples we went to a dam where I swam and I also bought a durian fruit there, but it wasn't good at all. In the evening I had dinner in the hotel, I ate chicken with nuts. Wong took me to the market, we bought some food there and I also bought clothes for 7 USD.


My last day in Cambodia Wong picked me up in the morning and we visited a beautiful pagoda in Siem Reap. There was life of Buddha depicted in pictures on the wall.



Afterwards we went back to Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm and in the evening I had to take a flight to Bangkok. During my stay in Cambodia I had a hay fever which was unpleasant in such a heat and I usually don't have allergy to any plants, so it must have been some tropical plant which caused it.
I stayed in the hotel 48 ville in Bangkok which was close to the Don Muang airport. The staff was friendly and in the morning I went back to the Don Muang airport where I took a free shuttle bus to the Suvarnabhumi airport. The journey took around 50 minutes. Then I took a flight to Hong Kong where I spent some hours walking around Mong Kok. It was 1st December and the temperature was 18°C, everybody except me was wearing winter clothes.


Then I got back to the airport and I took a flight to Dubai and then to Prague. I was tired and I slept for most of the journey. I arrived in Prague on 2nd December in the afternoon.