Saturday, December 21, 2013

Trip to Siem Reap




Our family holiday this time is Siem Reap. As usual we took the first flight in the morning and reach Siem Reap  before 8am. The airport reminds me of  a very big car park.. no skybridge, there's even a place to take photos before you go off into the airport building. Our tuk tuk driver, Salim was already waiting for us.
If you need a tuktuk driver, try Salim, he can speak Malay, a huge plus point for us. His service was excellent, the best driver I had while travelling.
We went to our hotel first to unload our bags, then straight for breakfast at Muslim Family Kitchen. I had ' deep cooked beef with bread'..the beef was so so, but the bread....sedapnye..
The prices are all in USD

First stop, War museum, USD5 per person

Irfan posing 

since out tuktuk driver is around to take our photos, banyaklah gambar family
the best part for the boys
Next stop...silk farm. Each cocoon can produce 100m of raw silk and 300m of fine silk. Colours of cocoon differs between countries.
Boiling the cocoon to get the raw silk
Handmade silk tablecloth in the making
the different types of silk
the shop..too bad they don't allow any photos here...the quality of the products is outstanding..price pun boleh tahan mahal about USD35 for a scarf,  i guess the price is still acceptable if you consider that it's handmade...but i didn't buy anything here.
On the way back our driver stop by a stall and bought 'lemang' for us...it tasted like ketupat daun palas with kacang. Lepas tu balik bilik, take a short rest, mansi, solat etc..then after maghrib we go out for dinner.
have to try their ' lembu naik bukit'.. a dish that they prepare in front of you. it consist of beef fried on a 'bukit like' structure with vegetables and soup.
not bad... comes with two types of dipping
ikan tiga rasa..cambodian style...the best dish we had here.


Lepas dinner, pergi night market, shopping...for shawls, then stop by for foot reflexology, since the kids don't want it, we only took a 10mins massage. 

then balik tidur, besok after Subuh to....Angkor wat

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