Tag: Sofitel Angkor

Cambodia Laos and Thailand, Touring Angkor Wat & Siem Reap, 5 February 2001

The thought of flying through the night, losing seven hours in the process and still getting up and touring hard the next day would be inconceivable for us now. But 25 years ago (as I write in early 2026) that is exactly what we did.

…then [we] go off to tour Angkor Wat.

Cover whole complex in a great deal of detail.

Dig the Naga features.

There’s nothing like tits and bums sculptures to up the visitor rate at a site like Angkor Wat – in the same way, such photos up the click rate on a web site like Ogblog

Up and up we went.

Intrepid – that’s the word for climbing explorers like me. Iantrepid even.

The site at twighlight.

Daisy struggled to get the difference between Angkor Wat the temple and the rest of the old City complex!

I don’t suppose Daisy’s new biker boy friends explained it to her either.

[We] go to souvenir shop and then on to market before we realised how tired we were.

As usual, Daisy (Janie) got some superb market photos

Back to hotel for a splendid meal of mixed delights and early night.

We didn’t take many pictures in hotel restaurants back then, so thanks to Ayustety from Tokyo for the following Wikimedia Commons pictures.

Cambodia Laos and Thailand, Getting There, 4 & 5 February 2001

Sofitel Angkor, Photo by ayustety from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0

I wrote a placeholder and links piece for this holiday several years ago, including several pages of write-ups with some of the highlights.

Cambodia Laos and Thailand, Placeholder and Links, 4 February to 27 February 2001

Now, 25 years on, it is time to complete the Ogblogging of this wonderful trip. This page is NOT a highlight. But the following pages, touring the wonders of Cambodia (not least the well-toured Angkor Wat and several other lesser visited places) most certainly are highlights.

4 February 2001 – left London 9 am – by 3:30 am London time the next day we were in Siem Reap! Event free journey – almost pleasant.

5th February 2001 – our guide Khouch drops us at Sofitel – we sleep a while – then we go off to tour.

We were SO ready to start touring…thanks Khouch!