Not much had changed, still enjoyable to wander round the Old Market and The Night Market. Pub Street was still there with new neon signs, Angkor What? Bar with its repainted graffiti walls still competing with Temple Bar across the street on who could play the loudest music.
Thursday nights at 2030 Warehouse bar hosts a good quiz night, pitchers of beer for the winning team and garlic vodka shots for the losers, with money raised from the quiz going to local NGO projects.
My favourite night spots were X rooftop bar with its half pipe, Doghouse and Karma bar. Met some great expats who also fell in love with the place and have made it their home, mucho jealous!
Beer still only 50 cents!!
Plenty of fantastic restaurants serving pretty much everything for every budget, lots of Khmer bbqs which u cook your own food on a small grill on your table, beef, pork, chicken, crocodile, frog, squid and snake!!
Taste of India for an amazing curry!
Molly Malone's for more western style food with great live music. Sushi bars, French, Italian, Belgian, loads of street food stalls and not forgetting all the happy pizza places!
Unfortunately there was still a lot of beggars and hawkers, young children selling postcards, books, flowers etc all day and late into the night. The biggest scam was young girls not looking for money but milk for their babies, they want you to buy the milk from a store but once you are gone they give it back to the store and receive half the cost and the shop gets pockets the other half.
I attended a one day workshop on child protection which is run by a not for profit organisation called ConCERT (connecting communities, environment and responsible tourism), they advise tourists on how to be responsible with sustainable ways to help. Anyone can pop in to see them at their base in the centre of Siem Reap or at the Bodhi tree riverside cafe or check out their website.
www.concertcambodia.org
25km north of Siem Reap near the Banteay Srey temple complex is The Cambodia Landmine Museum. The museum and relief facility was established in 1997 by ex child soldier Aki Ra. After years of fighting he returned to the villages in which he planted thousands of mines and began removing them, by hand and defusing them with homemade tools.
The museum tells Aki Ra's story in great detail and money raised supports a community of nearly 75 men, woman and children and in the ongoing clearing of landmines.
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