4 July 2000 Back pain! Sore butt!
Woke up with a terrible back pain and sore butt. It's terrible! We checked out and the guest house people take us to Naga guest house with no extra charges. They offer to take us to Angkor Wat the next day at 9 am with surcharge USD$25.

Naga guest house is cheap and comfortable. After checking in, we head for the local wet market to look for food. It's a 15 minutes walking distance from Naga. We had rice with vegetable, and fried fish meat. I notice that Khemer cooking is almost similar to chinese cooking. They used forks and spoons to eat rice and chopsticks for eating noodles. It's a hot afternoon, Kriss suggest that we buy some mangoesteen. Mangoesteen is cooling and can help cool down tour body. It's time to head back to Naga for shower and rest first, then will explore the town later in the evening.

Siem Reap is a quite and peacefull small town. There's a beautiful garden in the center of the town adn it's own and maintain by the Grand Hotel D' Angkor. It's a best place to relax and lay on the grass. Grand Hotel D' Angkor is the most expensive hotel in Siem Reap because it's a five stars hotel. USD$400 a room per night. Wow!!!!!!

There's restaurants, cafe, bar, souvenior shop, photo processing shop, internet cafe etc in this town. The wet market is the best place I like most, especially the souvenier corner. The Khemer art is so wonderful. It's mostly about the Ramayana epic and Buddhisim. I have a nice time shopping and bargaining. Everything sold here is in USD. I bought T-Shirt (USD$2 each), painting and a Cambodian scarf. The Cambodian scarf is a must buy, it's USD$1 each and it's good to cover your face from dust when you are on the pick up truck ride. So many things to discover. Ok, may be we'll stop by again on our last day here.

After dinner, we have a good night sleep. Tomorrow is the big day! We gonna visit Angkor, Bayon and Thron. I hope it's a sunny day tomorrow. Oh God please don't rain........... !

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Walking in the streets of Siem Reap. This is the nearest town to Angkor Wat.
   
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Cafe, restaurant and bar to hang out at night. This is the happening place in Siem Reap.
   
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The local wet market. A shopping paradise.
  
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