{"id":132,"date":"2008-05-06T14:46:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/siem-reap\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T04:04:19","slug":"siem-reap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/siem-reap\/","title":{"rendered":"Siem Reap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After breakfast we catch the bus to Siem Reap, minus Catherine who left the day before.\u00c2\u00a0 Pennie and Wiki are also a day ahead of us in Siem Reap, and emailed to say the 6 hour bus ride took more like 9.\u00c2\u00a0 We prepare for the worst.\u00c2\u00a0 I have my own two seats on the bus, until Sharon gets booted from her seat.\u00c2\u00a0 She asks if she can sit next to me, and I say no, but she must think I am joking.\u00c2\u00a0 She chats my ear off for the next 6 hours.<\/p>\n<p>We stop more often than necessary, and at one stop we&#8217;re offered some fried tarantulas, but we all pass.\u00c2\u00a0 I only like my spiders warm, and these have been sitting out too long.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3038\/2480489138_0c02d1d30a.jpg' class='flickrimg'alt='IMG_6831'\/><\/p>\n<p>At Siem Reap, where we arrive in under 6 hours, thankfully, there&#8217;s a sign with our names on it.\u00c2\u00a0 The driver whisks us off to our guesthouse and we check in.\u00c2\u00a0 Jess and I share a room.\u00c2\u00a0 I email Pennie and Wiki, to say I&#8217;m going to take it easy tonight, but that we&#8217;ll meet up the following day.\u00c2\u00a0 Julien and Sharon are heading to the night market to see if they can find Catherine, and I, hoping that I can find some clothes, tag along.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still a little beat, and the market is all souvenirs, so my hopes of finding clothes are dashes.\u00c2\u00a0 We walk back to the guesthouse after a little while, and get some sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After breakfast we catch the bus to Siem Reap, minus Catherine who left the day before.\u00c2\u00a0 Pennie and Wiki are also a day ahead of us in Siem Reap, and emailed to say the 6 hour bus ride took more like 9.\u00c2\u00a0 We prepare for the worst.\u00c2\u00a0 I have my own two seats on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/siem-reap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Siem Reap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia","category-siem-reap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}