{"id":12361,"date":"2014-02-28T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12361"},"modified":"2014-02-28T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:58:11","slug":"seeing-the-sights-around-sien-reap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12361","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the sights around Sien Reap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_0645-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12363\" alt=\"7 snakes\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_0645-001-265x300.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Today was a day of luxury for me, no push bike but a hotel car with driver &amp; an English speaking guide all to myself \u00a0for the day. \u00a0First we joined the thronging masses, more like Disneyland than an historic site, around the inner set of temples at \u00a0Angkor Thon, climbing to the heady heights of Baphuon (whilst the guide rested at it&#8217;s base) \u00a0then on to to the temple apparently made famous in the film Tomb Raider, Ta Prohm. We stopped for lunch at the very expensive and not very impressive Triple K restaurant ($4 for a coconut!). then after lunch it was a walk around the legendary Anghor Wat. Since it was still early I cajoled the pair into taking me down to Lake Sap to see the Vietnamese floating village with its tank of crocodiles &amp; other emporia. On the way the guide wanted to show me his favourite silk shop, but silk at $45 a metre I quickly walked out.<\/p>\n<p>On our return we got talking about massages &amp; that everywhere so far the word massage equalled sex \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0He explained that wasn&#8217;t the case with a traditional Khmer massage so I ended up having a two hour prodding, pounding twisting, stretching session for $25 at Siem Reap Khmer Massage, more like a <a href=\"http:\/\/nypilates.co.uk\/\">Daphne Pilate&#8217;s<\/a> workout than one of <a href=\"http:\/\/sallykelly.com\">Sally&#8217;s relaxing one<\/a>s. Will be interesting to see if my heel is any different tomorrow, she certainly found the pain point in it!<\/p>\n<p>A pretty full on day, a lot more expensive than my regular days. I&#8217;m not sure if the extra cost gains a lot more value &amp; in fact I enjoyed my solo trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koh_Ker\">Koh Ker <\/a>just as much. \u00a0What would be good is a trip with someone with a lot more knowledge especially why did they move from Hinduism to Buddhism. Speaking to the managers tonight &amp; reading Wikipedia I managed to learn a bit \u00a0more.<\/p>\n<p>a <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/+GeoffJones47\/albums\/5985432321250762993\">couple of hundred photos are here<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 as an experiment I&#8217;ve added them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoffjones\/sets\/72157641680478895\/\">Flickr here<\/a> using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/262083\/f-stop-the-best-flickr-bulk-uploader-for-the-mac\/\">F-Stop uploade<\/a>r. Terribly slow as I guess it&#8217;s uploading the full file size images \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a day of luxury for me, no push bike but a hotel car with driver &amp; an English speaking guide all to myself \u00a0for the day. \u00a0First we joined the thronging masses, more like Disneyland than an historic site, around the inner set of temples at \u00a0Angkor Thon, climbing to the heady heights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}