[Travel] Southeast Asia (2008)

On April 27 2012 19:01 Synwave wrote:
Brilliant!
Loved every photo sir
Btw whatcha drinking in the end? It looks like a strawberry daqeuri and now I want one.

On April 27 2012 23:33 ellerina wrote:
some of my college friends and I did almost the same trip, but in reverse, starting with Ho Chi Minh City and then ending in Bangkok. If you liked the re-education center, you would have loved the movie they show before the Cu Chi tunnel tour- it's this black and white propaganda film with a special mention of this villager-turned-guerilla who was also known as the 'American killer', lol.

One of my favorite 'temples' in Siem Reap was Kbal Spean- you had to hike a kilometer or so from the drop-off point to reach this area with a river and carvings that according to the guide there, date back to before Angkor Wat. Or maybe I remember it the most because it was a welcome rest from all those temples! We plan to go back to Vietnam when we can, and do a top-to-tail trip from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh. Thanks for sharing, brought back some good memories

On April 28 2012 02:37 NB wrote:
hey man, im from vietnam. Glad you enjoyed the trip. Its a pity that you cant see more of my country. If you try to ignore all the war relic stuff, the country itself is a piece of art.

Cheers.

On April 28 2012 02:12 dAPhREAk wrote:
just looked at some pics of Kbal Spean. looks pretty cool. did you get temple overload as well? we stayed there four days riding around and looking at temples. at the end we were like "fuck temples."

On April 28 2012 03:18 ellerina wrote:


4 days?! We only stayed three and were getting a bit temple fatigued at the end of the 2nd, haha. I guess it must have also been the heat (also an SE Asian so kinda used to it but still horrible) and the loads of people. On the third day we decided to just chill and go to some far-off temples: Kbal Spean and the Rolous Group, which had a temple that became one of our favorites, Bakong! The structure was different, kind of mini Mayan-ish, and the Diablo players in our group were all 'Hey, mini-Kurast Bazaar!' at the dilapidated sentry towers in the complex. I guess it helped that it was a cloudy afternoon and there was just a group of less than 5 people aside from us, so we were able to relax and take lots of funny pictures.

Other temples I liked were Angkor Wat (size and grandeur), Ta Phrom (swallowed by nature), and Banteay Srei (unique red sandstone and great carvings). Except for Banteay Srei and some of the reliefs at Angkor Wat, our group found that we weren't much of a carving-appreciating group, what spoke to us overall in our favorites was the structure (or lack thereof for Ta Phrom and Kbal Spean). I'm sure art/religious historians would beg to differ though.

On April 28 2012 03:38 dAPhREAk wrote:
cambodians here, i would like to know if the three people is bad luck thing is real or not.