For my trip to Cambodia with my Father, I did extensive research into hotels in each city we visited. While I was traveling Southeast Asia for a summer, he was only coming for two weeks and I wanted to make sure it was a special trip. We used 50USD a night as our guideline and that…

Cambodian wedding party What I Did: 4 nights in Siem Reap, 3 nights in Phnom Penh, 3 nights in Kep Overall: I was curious about visiting a country to recently coming out of such a brutal war but the residual effects I saw were small, money notes were very clean and new, as all the currency had been…

On our third and final day at Angkor we slept in a bit and checked out the final three temples on my list at a leisurely pace. We started at Neak Pean, a tiny but totally unique site that once functioned as an island temple with fountains and pools and animal sculptures- oh my! Like all…

We started off our second day by making the journey out to Banteay Srei, a small and out of the way temple redeemed by its intricate and plentiful carvings. It’s name translates to “citidel of women” and with its small size, pink sandstone construction and ornate designs you can see why. It was a  beautiful place…

Our first day at Angkor was epic. I had a highly researched plan, examined from every angle and committed to heart. But when our tuk tuk driver seemed to have a different idea, I adopted my new go-with-the-flow attitude and just trusted we’d get to everything on my list, albeit by a different route. We started…