Arrive safely at Siam Reap International Airport. Local time of Siam Reap is one hour late compare with time in KL.

Upon arriving, we took some pictures and head to the immigration counter to check in. As Malaysian no need to apply Visa to enter Cambodia, we skip the counter where foreigner apply e-visa.

The immigration counter is slow. We have spent the time for about 20 minutes to wait in the queue.

When we are done, we walked to claim our luggage and look for the hotel people who carries our names. Found the person and we on board to a car and go to hotel.

We discovered something different on the cars, motors or tuk-tuk...Not all of them have number plates?!?! According to the driver, their country is now regulate people to register for number plates on their cars.

After taking some rest, we went out to search for domestic packages offers at travel agencies along the street.

There are a few tuk-tuks stopped at outside of the hotel and for finding customers. They will call you and offer you he can drive you to places that we want to go. We reject them, and one of them will say: I wait for you at here, later you come back. So keen on getting every business.

We found a travel agency named Asia View Tour Tour Network which is located just opposite from the hotel. We managed to close the deal with USD 60 per person for a group of three person tour.It is a customised tour from the standard package. The package includes a tour guide and transport in air-cond vehicle for three days.

In the afternoon, tuk-tuk driver or the travel agency will usually give advise to tourist to visit Tonle Sap lake for sunset view and visit the water village. But we are not interested and from the tour guide book that we have, it doesn't look interesting to us. Hence, we decided to walk to tourist government office to get local guide books.

Along the walk, the sand is soft like those at beach. The air is dusty, this is because when the vehicle passed by, the wind will bring the soft dust to the air. We have to use hands or mask to cover our nose and mouth to avoid the dirty dust.

Along the road, we passed by the oldest hotel - Grand D' Angkor Hotel. We saw a silk fair is setting up just beside the tourist government office. We first enter the government office, the compound in the office is not properly maintained, it's rocky path. The officer passed us a guide book, we asked for two more but he said the guide book that he has already finished given out. They only published once in every 3 months. And by that time we were there, it's the end of the third month, so it's difficult to get more. Nevermind, we carry on to stroll around the silk fair. Saw two funny animals hanging on the tree made creatively :)

We walk back to see how far we have to walk to the downtown - old market. Well, luckily it is not far away from our hotel. It's about 15 minutes walk. There are a lot of shop houses along the road, so we never get bored while walking to the old market.

We walk back to our hotel to rest early before tomorrow's adventure day starts.

The hotel's tv has lots of tv programmes from around the world. I even found TV3! We watched the whole nite of tv programmes before sleep.

Meet up with our arranged tour guide and we start our journey.

Before enter Angkor Wat tourism place, we have to pass by the plaza toll to buy or show our tickets. As it is the first day of our visits. We went to queue with a passport photo and USD 40 per person for a 3-days ticket passes.

After ticket checked, we start getting near to Angkor Wat temple - a Hinduism temple. We saw the river, it's nice and comfortable view.

We get down from the car. The tour guide explained to us the whole Angkor Wat temple is built with sand stones carried down from a mountain named Phnom Kulen with elephants as transport.

We then proceed to the entrance, walk pass the causeway and it leads to a entry tower. We saw bullet marks left on the wall, these was left during the war between khmer rouge and the government. We can see the entry tower has some carvings. Most of them are apsara dancers carvings.

After explore the entry tower, we walk again and pass by two libraries (left and right) of this temple mountain. One library is restored by a French company and the other is restored by a Japan company. There's a lotus pond on our left when we are still walking on the causeway. That's the best spot to have photograph of Angkor Wat.

After finishing walking on the causeway, we enter and explore the most extraordinary bas-reliefs, depicting stories and characters from Hindu mythology and the historical wars of Suryavarman II. The carvings on the wall is very beautiful although some are becoming blur as time goes by. Each bas-relief is a story: Battle of Kuru, the historical march of the army of Suryavarman II against the Cham, Scenes of Heaven and Hell, and Churning of the Ocean Milk. Besides of the wall, there are other carvings on pillars, staircase..it is like anywhere it has space, they will have carving sculpted on the architecture. It takes some time to explore the bas-reliefs.

We then climbed up to the temple moutain that is about 64 or 65 meters high. It is quite difficult to climb up as the staircase is steep and small. And of course there are a lot of carvings everywhere too. From the top, you can see the Angkor Wat structure, and you may also see some buddha statue. Climbing down from the top is difficult to. We follow others to a staircase that is with handrail. It is a long queue.

We walk out from Angkor Wat and pass by a tourist market.

Soon, we arrived at Bayon. It's one of the amazing historical sites in Cambodia too. There are carvings around the exterior wall of Bayon too. It's mainly about Cambodians life in the past.

Our tour guide - Sothean told us a lot about Hinduism and Buddhism stories. We were wonder why did he knows so much of these two religion. We asked and was told, he was a monk for 8 years.

We head to Baphuon, a huge temple-mountain in the heart of Angkor Thom. It's in ruined condition is most parts, so it is closed for extensive restoration progress.

Actually there's a nicer path to walk to Baphuon, but our tour guide prefer to walk beside the main path. Maybe it is due to he was a monk practise last time.

As we walked further, we went to Royal Palace of Angkor Thom. It is steep to climb too. But there's nothing to see on the top.

Soon, we reached the Elephant Terrace and the Terrace of The Leper King (The person in charge in the Hell). The real Leper King statue was moved to musuem and the one we saw is a replica. We also have seen the Hindusim Level on the wall. Nice and obvious carvings still can be seen on the wall.

It's near the sunset time. We off to Bakheng Hill to watch sunset at Bakheng Temple, it's on the popular spots to view sunset.

It's an easy path to go up the hill. We also see elephant riding service with charge offer to tourists who prefer to enjoy an elephant ride go up to or down from the hill.

When we are on top of Bakheng Temple, there are some people - foreigners or locals looking for good spots to enjoy viewing the sunsets. We found ourselves a place too. I went to find the direction that can see Angkor Wat temple. I found it, but it was too far and hazy to look clearly of Angkor Wat temple.

It's dinner time! We went to Yik's suggested restaurant Viroth's at Wat Bo Road for Khmer cuisine.

We have ordered Roast Chicken with Khmer Style $4.5, Chicken Satay $4.50, Amok Fish $4, 3 Cokes with $1 each and in total we have spent $17.50 at this restaurant. It's not bad with 3 persons sharing.

After the dinner, we decided to walk to back to the hotel as Siam Reap is a small town. We also wish to enjoy night view around Siam Reap.

Before we arrived at the hotel, we go to Angkor Market to buy some big bottles of mineral waters. This market sells cheaper price of mineral water with $0.30 each 1.5Litre.

Took our breakfast and heading to Angkor Wat.

When we reached there, it is early and it is cold in the morning. But there are already a few people standby there to get the frontest position for photography shooting. Everyone is wearing jacket. Saw some chairs available near the lotus pond - where's the best shot of Angkor Wat's sunrise. We of course go to find ourselves a chair to sit. But one of the stall owner there said if you order coffee then you'll have chairs to sit, otherwise you can't. It is too early to have a coffee, not our habit.

There are a lot of professional photographers taking their cool equipment with SLR or DSLR to catch the best shot of Angkor Wat sunrise.

The place has become crowded later, more and more people come here to wait for the beautiful sunrise.

This is the time where we view the beautiful sunrise.

After the sunrise, the tour guide need to take a rest, so we told them to come back when it is 9am and finished rest. We wish to visit the Angkor Wat again.

Bas-reliefs on the exterior wall is what we wish to revisit again. To look more carefully and slowly on the carving arts.

It's time to meet our tour guide. He will bring us to Kbal Spean which has carvings on the river bed.

It's a long and bumpy way to Kbal Spean. We were boucing in the car. Along the way, we saw houses developed at the city's outskirt. The houses that are near to the city is huge and nice. Tour guide told us it is because they sell the land in Siam Reap town, earned huge amount, so they build a better house. Further from the town, we see small houses - it's actually a hut with leaves covered and wood that built it. We also saw pig strolling along the street, what a funny scene you couldn't find in my own country.

Arrived at Kbal Spean, at the starting point to climb up to the mountain.

We showed our tickets bought at the entrance and start going up. It becomes a hot morning after the sun is out.

At initial stage, the path is easy. Then, we have to go through rocky and steep path. Luckily we were wearing sports shoes. Must bring water with you if you are visiting Kbal Spean. It is a more than half and hour mountain hiking.

We started to think why the king wants to do carving on a river bed of the mountain.

We went to have a lunch at Prasat Banteay Srey Restaurant. It is very near to Banteay Srey. I started not feeling well after visiting the Kbal Spean.

We have ordered Khmer cuisine - Prahoc Kratis (I don't like the fish paste taste), Amok chicken in Coconut, Beef Lok-Lak, 2 coconut juice and 1 ice coffee. The meal costs $12

Arrived at Angkor Mondial Restaurant. It has many people sitting and everyone is busy taking food from the tables. It's a buffet dinner. They offer the Amok fish in small square leave, taste very nice! The dinner show cost $ 10, but it does not include any drinks. You can ask for warm or cold plain water. Some stuff won't show you happy face if you just ask for plain water.

The show starts from 7.30pm and ends at about 9.30pm. At the end of the show, you can go up to the stage and have photos with the dancers.

We back to Bayon. We are have not fully explore the Bayon since the first tour guide keep telling us about buddism stories. So, we make a request to our tour guide, and he is flexible and willing to bring us there.

At Angkor, two buildings made me impressed - Angkor Wat and Bayon. These are the ones that still consider "complete"and most interesting as compare the others

Home sweet home to my home country - Malaysia. :) It's a wonderful and memorable trip.

Don't be scared to go to Cambodia, it is safe from land mines. Unless, you are to challenge yourself to meet one.