Holiday in Cambodia

Holiday in Cambodia
Originally uploaded by crisis-tour.

Getting to Siem Reap was no picnic, no sir! Let's see how did it go? First we took a minibus on the ferry and continued on to the border where we caught a tuk tuk to immigration then over the border. That was a fairly simple 9-hour ordeal but then we boarded a sorry excuse for a bus that could not exceed 20km/hour even if you got out and pushed it! The road was, well it can't even be called a road because it would have been better to drive through the rice paddies on a tractor. It took more than 6 hours to go 100 spine-cracking potholed miles!

We arrived in Siem Reap see 30+ luxury hotels ($200-$700/night) lining the main street.

Why does a region that brings in $100 million a year not have a road to Angkor Wat? Can you say C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? Our first impression was of the similarity with Peru's Machu Picchu.