Author: melisajohnson

Today was our bike tour of the temples and I was starting to get nervous as traffic is a bit much in town and I knew I had to cycle through it to get to the temples, but everyone survived and we made it to Angkor Wat.

I have hundreds of photos, but I will try and limit them for the post…

Then we headed about 5k away to the next set of temples, which you might recognize from a movie.

We took a short ride to our lunch spot and had a well deserved beer (at least we thought it was deserved). Before the last set of temples.

Finally we headed back into Siem Reap after a long, but good day!

So I have had a few bad treatments and the worse massage that I had had before yesterday was at the Ritz Carlton, now I paid $250 USD for that massage and yesterday I paid $12… so we really should not complain.

We had been by the day before and had a 30 minute foot massage for $4 and it wasn’t bad, so we thought we would go back for a one hour treatments. First of all it was almost done in some sort of container… I had a wall next to me with a roll up door.

I actually felt fine going in and came out with more aches and pains!

On the bright side it was only $12!

Richard had a very exciting morning- he got to go for a ride in a microlight and as you can see he was not excited at all…

Here are a few photos from his flight:

This morning we took off with out tuk tuk driver and went to visit some floating villages. It was amazing to see full communities living on the lake. They had a school, temple, police station, community centre, boat yard and shops. The only thing missing was a hospital and they are working as a community to raise the funds to build it.

They were even able to keep animals on the water. We saw chickens, ducks 2 cats and a dog!

It was amazing that some of the homes families of 4-5 people lived in were probably smaller standard kitchen. Some did have a solar panel, but we were told that was really expensive, so they mostly relied on a battery or a small generator for power.

After the boat tour we headed down to Pub Street for lunch and some 50 cent draft beers. The beer wasn’t great, but Richard said for that price he was not going to complain. We ended the afternoon with 30 minuted foot massages, which cost us $4 USD each.

Now it may be nap time or possibly a dip in the pool.

Well today was all about food! We did a bit of touring this morning and then spent the afternoon/evening in the markets and in little food stalls.

In the photo below you have flavored fish balls… you imagine the flavor and I think they have it!

This was a crepe with butter, salad dressing and canned fruit in it…

Some various foods. These are what kids would eat for an afternoon snack. Rice paper rolls, fish balls, and something filled with fish balls. All covered with a peanut type of sauce.

We had a great dinner last night by the water at Ocean Centre. The views is Hong king island were great, but the light show was definitely disappointing.

For a main I had a burrata and tomato salad, which was nice. I ordered a homemade ravioli stuffed with ricotta cheese and lobster which was really nice.

But desert was the best course by far!

It was a white chocolate ball filled with a vanilla cream on a bed of jasmine gelato. A wonderful end to the meal!

I was so busy with my meal… I don’t remember what Richard had!

We were up early and out for a walk before the streets were full of people, so we had a lovely morning.

Then we took the Star Ferry over to Hong Kong Island for our dorky big bus tour. It did start to rain on us, but I just could not bring myself to put on the yellow rain parka… we had to draw a line at some point. It was a good way to see the city without dealing with the crowds of people on the street. Also we weren’t up for to much today as we are adjusting to a 13 hours time difference!

Then we took the tram up to Victoria Peak where we saw absolutely nothing due to the weather, but we did at least find a great lunch spot!

After all this we were both about to fall asleep, so we thought maybe a little nap this afternoon might be in order!

We arrived in Hong Kong on time and made our way to our apartment.

An interesting place I have to say, but nice and clean with good AC!

After dropping our stuff we went for a walk and to find some dinner. We found a great little spot. We were the only non-locals in there, so usually a good sign. we were also not entirely sure of what we ordered, but it was all great!

it is now off for an early night!