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  • Day 8 – Border to Ubon

    We set off in the early morning from our place just 10 km into Thailand from the ช่องสะงำ border crossing. I had the great idea of trying to take a shortcut we had heard tell of. I don’t know if I picked the wrong road, or if the shortness of the route got lost in […]

  • Day 7 – Siem Reap to Thailand

    This morning we left Siem Reap at about 6:00. We stopped after 13 km for breakfast. We reached Srei Noi around 10:00. It was a little too early to call it quits, so we had second breakfast and moved on We ate a late lunch in Anlong Veng. Where we stopped the proprietors were eating […]

  • Day 6 – Bakong and Beyond

    Today we started by journeying to Bakong in a hired motorcycle pulled cart. We then doubled back and picked up Preah Ko. At Preah Ko we witnessed restoration that was a bit aggressive for my tastes. They were rebricking and repillaring so as to make a 9th century building look like new. We wrapped up […]

  • Day 5 – Around Angkor

    Today we traveled by bike past Angkor Wat in through the South Gate of Ankor Thom and out through the West Gate. The road out to the West Gate was unpaved. It felt good to be on the proverbial road less traveled. We continued past the West Gate in search of the West Baray (reservoir). […]

  • Day 4 – Angkor

    I’m hoping Mark’s photos from the day give the things we saw today a better showing than I can give them with words, so I’ll skim through a very full day. After breakfast at a small shop where everyone was watching TV, we swung by a pharmacy and got mosquito repellent and a rain poncho. […]