Grand Circuit of Angkor

Visiting temples in Siam Reap apparantly is a good way of doing sport. Climbing up and down the steep stairs of the temple, good exercise for your tigh :-)

Picture on the left might explain the effort required :-)

Luckily not many temples require that ... hehehehe






Below is Preah Khan temple. Preah Khan is a buddhist temple built by King Jayawarman VII. It was surrounded by budha's carvings but all those carvings were removed by the next king as the next king is a Hindu king.

Preah Khan is halfly restored and some even will be retained as ruin to show how it was then it was found.

Then I visited Neak Pean (below left), also built by King Jayawarman VII. It was believed that the water can cure ilness. Today, there are persons doing praying in the middle of the temple (do not know how they reach there, swimming I guess). According to the temple guard, the lady praying to thank the god as the god has cured her sister. So in Siam Reap ... people still have a strong beliefs on offerring gods and asking wealth, health, etc.

Above on the right is Ta Som temple. That girl is the daugher of a lady that work for government to clean up the temple. They regularly sweep the temple floor and clean up the falling leaves. It helps to preserve the temple.

Then next temple is East Mebon. It's a temple in East Baray (water reservoir, but no more water there).

Then below ... Banteay Srei, is a Cambodian temple dedicated to god Shiva. This temple is beautifully carved but was only rediscovered in 19's due to a foreign traveller stole 4 deva statues and got caught.

Parc d'archeologic du Angkor

Dans cette parc, il y a beaucoup du temple. C'est le plus grand temple Hindu du monde.

Angkor Wat etait  le temple du ville d'Angkor. Trés trés trés beau.
Ci dessous, le temple avant et pendant lever du soleil. Pris à 05:48 et 06:50.

Angkor Thom était le capital du ville d'Angkor. Cette une ville special pour les royales. Dans cette quartier, il y a Bayon;  le temple central de l'ancienne ville d'Angkor Thom. Bayon est trés connu avec ses tours à visages. Ci dessous, les visages pris avec une technique special ... nez vs. nez :-)

                                       Qui a le nez plus grand ?

Watching Cambodian Show

Arrived in the Siam Reap airport, the adventure starts ... instead of taxi, i was offerred a moto taxi (motorcycle with driver). I took it. My luggage was kept by the moto driver at the front and I am with my heavy backpack at the back ... off we go. Most of the time, he drove only with one hand as the other hand is busy holding a mobile phone. He got phone calls many times hehehehe.

He is a nice guy and speaks English quite fluently. He said that he learned English at school and practiced with tourists. He is now studying history as he wants to be a tour guide instead of a moto driver. What a spirit he has. So I asked him to be my driver also my tour guide to go to Siam Reap Cultural village - happily he agreed.

In Siam Reap Cultural village, I watch the 'Peacock' story with the cambodians. Today is Sunday, it's a family holiday. See below the picture that I took before the show starts ... compact with people hehehehe.

And I met my little friend that always smile when a camera is pointed at her. Maybe she will be a model when she grows up :-)

Below is the picture of my little friend and her family ....

Mekong Delta

Mekong ... c'est une fleuve trés important ici.

Pas seulement pour de l'eau mais aussi Il y a beaucoup des famillies y habitent sur (j,utilise mot 'sur' parce-que ils habitent sur un bateau).

A gauce, c'est le bateau qui prend le motos pour traverser la riviere. Trés utile, n'est pas ?



Nous avons essayé également, avec le petit bateau, circulant le petit chemin sur riviere parmi les arbes. Il y a environ 200 petit bateau circulant à cette heure. Tu peut voir l'embouteillage sur le photo ci desous :-)

Alors ... Le jour est fini par le coucher du soleil et on peut voir la partie fascinant au bord du Mekong.

Ho Chi Minh

At last, after 22 hours of journey - I arrive in Ho Chi Minh city. It is indeed looks like my hometown when I was small, but my hometown was  much more less crowded than here.

I have to learn how to cross the road properly here as cars (not so many) nor motorcycle (thousands of them) will stop at the zebra cross hehehehe. I lost a bit my instinct in crossing the road; have been pampered so many years in Switzerland where pedestrians are the kings :-)

So you have to look left and wait till you get a chance to cross at least till the middle of the road (not so sure which one but just take your approximate), then look right wait till it's a bit empty ... then cross hurry a bit till you reach the safe shore.

I am lucky though. My hotel is clean and nice. Sitting in an alley full of food stall ...

For tonight, I choose this seafood restaurant and I ate salted fish fried rice or in Indonesian is Nasi Goreng Ikan Asin ... feel like home :-)

See you another day

Reflection

It's a picture of reflection ...

Réfléchir ... réfléchir, toujour réfléchir hehehehe

Maitenant je réfléchis ce que je doit prendre avec moi :-)

What is Kalapas

Kalapas is mass of subatomic particles that arise and pass away, arise and pass away ... continuously. This is what has been written in books :-)

It will be a long journey indeed to prove and see it yourself. People in CERN built the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) to prove it scientifically ... while the wise man had seen it himself 2500 years ago.