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The Best of Siem Reap | Asia Vlog 7

Vlog 7 Siem Reap Vlog Description

Welcome to Cambodia and more specifically the Siem Reap vlog! I only did one vlog for Cambodia, 50% because I needed a break after filming almost everyday in Thailand and 50% because it didn’t feel vlog worthy. Siem Reap though, I highly recommend.

When I say our first day in these descriptions I always mean the first day that we went out and actually did something. So our first day we were trying to figure out what to do for the day and while Dan was up at reception trying to figure that out (Zach and I just sit back and let him do his thing) Donna introduced herself. She was basically third wheeling her friends and was planning on going to a floating village and she asked if we wanted to join. We said fuck it and hopped in a tuk tuk with her. The floating village was really cool…I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. All these houses and buildings are built on stilts that are several metres high. They’re built this way to accommodate the rainy season where the water level can go from 0 metres up to 4 metres during the wet season! We were right in the middle of wet season which made the experience so much cooler. To finish off the day our tuk tuk driver Sem drove us to an unreal lookout point to catch the sunset. It was a bit of a trek and he decided to wait for us at the bottom. Crazy view from the top seeing how flooded the country had become during the wet season.

The next day we decided to take a day tour to Battambang, a historic city about a 3 hour drive away from Siem Reap. We got dropped off and met our tour guide Kim.

***If you ever go to Battambang I highly recommend Kim’s tuk tuk tour

Kim took us to some awesome places and his english was really good so he was able to tell us a lot about the history of Battambang and the reign of the Khmer Rouge. The whole history of Cambodia is pretty horrendous and I’d recommend looking into it whether you’re a history buff or not. Our first stop was the bamboo train, it was a cool experience and kind of like Cambodia’s craziest rollercoaster lol. We drove a bit more through some villages and the beautiful Cambodian countryside. We stopped to take a couple photos and I got into the draw to get that sick photo and started feeling these little pricks on my legs. At first I just thought it was the grass brushing up on my legs and then it kept happening so I looked down and my feet and calves we’re covered in these little red ants and it fucking hurt!!! I frantically did my best to brush them off my legs and shoes while our tour guide, Kim, laughed like he see’s this shit everyday. Honestly, a bit of an overreaction on my part lol. Then we made our way towards the temple at the top of the mountain and the Killing Caves. The Killing Caves got their name from what they were used for. The Khmer Rouge under the command of Pol Pot, a revolutionary army, basically pushed people off a ledge into this cave to kill politicians, educated people, teachers, doctors, etc. in order to save bullets. This is part of the messed up history I was talking about earlier. There are also the killing fields in Phenom Penh where they excited millions of Cambodians. To give you an idea of the scale of this genocide the Khmer Rouge wiped out nearly half of the Cambodian population, over 3 million Cambodians were killed during this time. It may not be as many people as the Holocaust, however proportionately it’s very close which is even more messed up since it was even more recent than WWII and I’ve never learned about it until that point. Kim got somewhat emotional at this point as he had close family members who disappeared during this time and left us to explore the killing caves ourselves.

On a happier note we caught the sunset and the famous bats exiting the cave at the end of the day. The millions of bats pouring over the countryside skyline looked epic and I’ve never seen so many bats at once! We finished off the day eating dinner with Kim at his house while his family bustled around cooking a food and somewhat gawking at us. They were super friendly and we had an awesome dinner. Easily the most local and authentic experience we had in Cambodia.

Our last day in Siem Reap we hired our Sem, the same tuk tuk driver we had for the floating village to take us around the temples in Siem Reap. Angkor Wat was the main attraction which we hit first for sunrise. Never seen so many other tourists at one time but still a really cool sunrise. After that we hit up a couple more temples but at this point temples are temples and honestly they kind of get boring at a certain point. The sunrise was still epic though!!

Up next is our big Vietnam trip!! I’m getting excited just to watch and edit all the footage. See you in Ho Chi Min!!

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Video about Cambodia Tours

This video to give info for touring in Cambodia

1st Place: Thailand, Vietnam & Cambodia

By - Maggie Krile '20
Class - Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia: A Business and Multicultural Adventure
Eckerd College Winter Term Video Contest 2018

Video shots include Bangkok and Chiang Mai in Thailand, Siem Reap in Cambodia, and Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hoi An, Saigon, and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Includes Pongsak Intham (our tour guide), two monks at Doi Suthep temple in Chiang Mai, a 4th grade class at the Brick Factory in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, the sons of the boat driver in the floating village in Siem Reap, Cambodia, a woman working at the umbrella factory in Chiang Mai, a young monk in training at Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap, a street musician at the bottom of Doi Suthep temple in Chiang Mai, a group of Vietnamese locals celebrating the soccer win in Saigon, and our guide at the Prasart Museum in Bangkok.

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