Í' m a bit behind with this blog so please forgive me not posting anything about our 4 day return to Malaysia - this time the Peninsular part.In a nutshell .... Melaka was great with nice Portuguese colonial buildings (similar to Cochin in India) and KL wasn't so interesting although the Petronus Towers were very impressive indeed. I ll post some pictures soon.
We are in Cambodia at the moment. The temples of Angkor Wat were incredible - absolutely stunning. The area is vast and on the 3rd day of temple hunting we drove for over an hour from Siem Reap to see a very cool one with some really magic carvings. The more famous temples such as Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom are very nice too plus the one they filmed Tomb Raider 1 in - Ta Promh. The jungle has grown into the temple and its very atmospheric!
We had some good party action at the Angkor What? Bar(oh what a pun!) on Halloween. Siem Reap is lots of fun with party action, bars and great food in a small area. But the very harsh realities of Cambodia are never far away...
The history is terribly depressing - we went to Pol Pot"s torture chambers today in the capital Phnom Penh and then to the Killing Fields. Everywhere in both cities there are amputees from landmines begging- its heartbreaking and often they are teenagers. Incredibly despite all that the people are very charming indeed - the nicest we have met anywhere, I think. They smile and laugh and are lots of fun. There are very few older people - Pol Pot killed about 2 million people 1975-1979 so the Cambodian population is very young.
Lizzy and I have sponsored a Education Youth Project for Street Kids by buying a brick for the building here in Phnom Penh. Read about it here if you can.......
http://www.friends-international.org/projects.html#mithsamlanh
http://www.friends-international.org/BuyBrickOnline.html
We are in Cambodia at the moment. The temples of Angkor Wat were incredible - absolutely stunning. The area is vast and on the 3rd day of temple hunting we drove for over an hour from Siem Reap to see a very cool one with some really magic carvings. The more famous temples such as Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom are very nice too plus the one they filmed Tomb Raider 1 in - Ta Promh. The jungle has grown into the temple and its very atmospheric!
We had some good party action at the Angkor What? Bar(oh what a pun!) on Halloween. Siem Reap is lots of fun with party action, bars and great food in a small area. But the very harsh realities of Cambodia are never far away...
The history is terribly depressing - we went to Pol Pot"s torture chambers today in the capital Phnom Penh and then to the Killing Fields. Everywhere in both cities there are amputees from landmines begging- its heartbreaking and often they are teenagers. Incredibly despite all that the people are very charming indeed - the nicest we have met anywhere, I think. They smile and laugh and are lots of fun. There are very few older people - Pol Pot killed about 2 million people 1975-1979 so the Cambodian population is very young.
Lizzy and I have sponsored a Education Youth Project for Street Kids by buying a brick for the building here in Phnom Penh. Read about it here if you can.......
http://www.friends-international.org/projects.html#mithsamlanh
http://www.friends-international.org/BuyBrickOnline.html
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