When you want to visit Angkor Wats you can choose to do it multiple ways . You can just visit one temple Angkor Wats or you can do a day tour or multiple day tours that cover multiple temples . The common tours available are known as Small Tour and Big Tour . Small Tour includes – Angkor wat , Angkor Thom ( Bayon, baphon, terrace of elephants and terrace of lapper king), Takeo, Taprom ( Tomrider) , And Banteay…
Ta Prohm temple is also part of many Angkor Wat Tours . This temple was made famous by the Tomb Raider movie . This temple was built by Jayavarman the 7 th in honour of his family . This temple is of a flat architecture. What makes this temple interesting is historians let this temple as it is with trees ingrown to persevere the effect of nature on the temples . It is a stunning sight . This was one…
Angkor Thom is a fortified city consisting of multiple temples and buildings near Angkor Wats and is usually included in what is called a small tour . It has multiple gates/entrances . Bayon The most famous Temple in Angkor Thom is called Bayon and was built in the late 12 th century by a different king than the one that built Angkor Wat . This temple was built as a Buddhist temple by King Jayavarman the seventh. It is a…
A good friend of mine told me few years ago his favourite trip was seeing Ankor Wat in Cambodia. He is very well traveled. Ever since that time I been wanting to see Angkor Wat . I was able to find some time on my East Asia Trip to stop in Siem Reap Cambodia. I will write another post about the logistics of visiting Ankor Wat and the surrounding temples. On this post I ll focus on the temple itself….
One of my favourite places in Cambodia Siem Reap was the hotel/resort I stayed at . It was the Courtyard By Marriott . Courtyard By Marriott in North America is considered to be about a three star hotel . In Cambodia it is a five star resort ! Rooftop Bar The property I stayed at was recently build and the first day we were there it was less than 25 perfect full . I loved having the hotel to ourselves…
If you are from India or Sri Lanka you already know Accumulating Gold Jewelry is a favourite pass time of the population . Singapore Gold Jewelry is considered by these two population to be superior to gold purchased in any other country. When I told my mom I am visiting Singapore on my East Asia Trip she insisted I buy some gold jewelry pieces from Singapore. Not having bought gold on my own before this was a stressful ask for…
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One of the most interesting places you can explore in Singapore is Serangoon Road in Little India. You can get here using the subway . I have never been to India but I imagine this place is very similar. It is filled with people , stores and restaurants. I would recommend visiting in the day time and at night if you have the time . When we went it was near Deepavali as such Serangoon Road was lit up ….
On my recent trip to Singapore I was so taken by the Super Grove Trees at night time I decided to take a video of it . It is Beautiful. See Below for video . I also wrote a detailed post about the Super Grove Trees if you want to learn more about it . Inspired by my first video – I took two more videos . Both at the top of the Marina Bay Hotel at night time ….
One of my bucket list item was to swim at the infinity pool at Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore. The highest located infinity pool in the world ! In order to access the infinity pool you need to be a guest at the hotel . The nightly rate for a room at the time we were going was $500 SGD a night ! The cost of the bucket list item was too high! So I chooses to not stay…