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Travel: Cooking Class in Siem Reap
Cooking class in Siem Reap – the best. Khmer food is so delicious and taking this class taught me so much about spices and different foods. Eye opening for sure. Below you can see how cheap this class is – only $15.00 per person. Plus, you get to eat! Lucky for us, we were the only two in the class. Oh, and our t-shirts rock. Ready to Cook Here we go! When booking the class we got to pick our meals. I picked salad, curry…
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Travel: Siem Reap Temples – Angkor Wat and More
Siem Reap temples – Angkor Wat and more, so many more temples. By far Siem Reap is our favourite place on our trip off the continent; not only are the people friendly, but the food is good and the culture is beautiful. Visit if you get the chance. Okay, time to get ready for a long day of heat and history. My first tip when visiting the temples – get a guide. Not some tuk-tuk driver who will give you a low rate, but a…
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Travel: Riding Bikes in Siem Reap
Riding bikes in Siem Reap is so much fun. It’s a challenge, don’t get me wrong, to navigate the speedy mopeds, tuk-tuks, and cars, yet it’s exciting, too. These are our top of the line bikes. Our hotel, Hima Boutique, got them for us on our second full day in Siem Reap. They had them ready to go at 7 am and we used them all day long. The cost – 2$ each. Talk about cheap. They each came with a lock and a light…
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Travel: 3 Days in Siem Reap
Three Days in Siem Reap Three days in Siem Reap are some of the best on our whole 23 day trip to Southeast Asia. Seeing temples, swimming in the hotel pool, cooking lessons, and riding bikes. Oh, and eating some of the most delicious food! Like really delicious food. Three days in Siem Reap is enough time, yet don’t spend much less time here. In all honesty, I could have spent 5 days here riding my bike and eating fried rice with a fried egg…
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Travel: Siem Reap Snapshot
Siem Reap snapshot – the third (oh my, it’s going so fast!) stop on our April 2016 visit to Southeast Asia. This place is amazing. Cambodia is so beautiful and the people are so friendly. What to do in Siem Reap? Visit temples and old city ruins – Angkor Wat and the surrounding historical sites. Also, you can bike around town on a city bike – one of my favourite things thus far on the trip. Siem Reap Snapshot We took cooking classes and watched…