1 post tagged “siem reap”
All-in-all I only spent 4.5 days in Siem Reap, Cambodia. But I loved it. I loved the compressed little city, the marketplace with rows and rows of stalls selling the same great t-shirts, silk scarves and brass or silver statues. The intense motorbike, car, bus and bicycle traffic. The masked women who swept dust from the streets.
There is extreme poverty. I am far from insensitive to this. But while a fact and heart-wrenchingly so, it doesn't come close to defining the coutry's experience.
TukTuks at rest which is like almost never. Attached to motorbikes, they are great way around town.
Internet cafes are everywhere. Homes are not wired to any great degree and bandwidth is expensive (I kept having to negotiate with my hotel for more access as I would suck up 100 Mbs in a session)
Typography and signage to die for!
Our final Ogilvy dinner was far outside of town at temple ruins. A full moon, dramatic lighting, and four elephants in complete elephant outfits (you know - noble, gold, tassley stuff, made it a pretty special event.
