Siem Reap

A short flight took us to Siem Reap in Cambodia. Before a more informative post, we just wanted to show you our new place!

On our arrival, we took a short taxi ride to the Smiley Guesthouse:

We chose it because it was cheap ($6 a night), but it turned out to be a large, beautiful guesthouse with a friendly staff that laughed all the time.


Here's our room!


After moving our stuff in, we walked down the street to check out the local market. Here's the local fish and produce:


The city itself is far less enjoyable than Luang Prabang (it's hot, dusty, noisy and, at times, smelly. The buildings are fairly grubby and uninspiring, and there's a lot of traffic). But we're very happy with our guesthouse and excited to see the ancient temple ruins of Angkor Wat, which is why we came. More on that right now!