Showing posts with label Cambodia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambodia. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 March 2015

28. From Cambodia to Vietnam / Z Kambodży do Vietnamu

A portable drink bar / Bar na kółkach. Kobieta ma swobodę ruchu i wyboru miejsca, w którym bedzie jej biznes lepiej rozkręcał...

Cambodians are great. They are polite and helpful. Tuk tuk drivers inform you when you pass by important sites and you simply do not feel threatened walking down the streets after sunset.
Yes, as a foreigner you pay 3 times more for everything but it's forgiveable because it's still cheap for us. We never felt that we were being ripped off, we always managed to negotiate the price and both parties were happy.

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

27. Killing Fields, Phnom Pehn, Cambodia / Pola Śmierci, Phnom Pehn, Kambodża


Memorial (stupa) with skulls, bones and clothes of and for the victims of Khmer Rouge regime. / Memoriał (stupa) ku pamięci ofiar, wypełniona czaszkami, kośćmi i ubraniami ofiar reżimu Czerwonych Khmerów.

Visitting S-21 was very depressing. But it's probably much more disturbing walking around the site of Killing Fields where to this day bones and clothes of the victims are being washed away from underground during rainy season.

Saturday, 14 March 2015

24. Angkor Wat temple, Angkor Wat complex, Siem Reap, Cambodia / Świątynia Angkor Wat, kompleks Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Kambodża

Sunrise over Angkor Wat temple. / Wschód słońca nad świątynią.

We have decided that our 3rd best liked temple is Angkor Wat itself. It's so big that you could spend hours studying the details carved on the walls.
Angkor Wat, 'the city pagoda', was not only a temple but a city as well. It's like a pyramid with three level and you can climb up to the to highest temple.
It is dated from early 12th century with later additions.

23. Our No. 2, Bayon temple, Angkor Wat complex, Siem Reap, Cambodia / Na 2 miejscu, świątynia Bayon, należąca do kompleksu Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Kambodża


Face-towers of the Bayon temple

Bayon temple is a our No. 2 temple of Angkor Wat complex for its enigmatic face-towers. Today there are 37 of them standing (out of 49). Most are carved with 4 faces but sometimes there are only 3 or even just 2.