Siem Reap (Cambodia) - Day 3

3rd day - Free and Easy around the Town

Siem Reap Town

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Old Market Area Map

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We begins our day with Artisans D'Angkor which is less than 5 min walk from our hostel. It's a place where variety of handicraft are made. You can buy some handicraft and manage to see their workshops. Their crafts include silk painting, stone and wood carving, ornamental painting and etc. Some of them are hearing impaired. You can get free book about travelling in Cambodia as well.











































































After visiting Artisans D'Angkor, we went to Old Market Area. Plenty of souvenir is sold here but basically.. every stalls are selling the same thing. It actually divided into dry section and wet section. Some food could be found here as well but i've no interest towards the food here.















































Lunch Time~~! Walking along the Sivatha road, i've found one chinese restaurant which sold dumpling at reasonable price. At last, I don't have to eat fried noodle. We ordered one sour soup ( USD1.50) and several types of dim sum (USD2.50). The jasmine tea is free. The portion is big so we didn't order any white rice.

























Then, we went to Center Market which is within the walking distance from the restaurant as well. The center market is much more cleaner than old market area but not much people could be found here as i believe the old market area offered the goods at cheaper price.




























After that, we actually plan to have a look at another market which is stated as Angkor Market in the map. When we reached the so called "Angkor Market". We've found that it's actually a name of a mini market.


Walking down the Sivatha road to National Route No. 6, there are one small jewelery shop, one small shopping center with two storeys and two shop each floor and one Angkor Shopping Center which is very very small as well. You can go to Angkor Wat Miniature if you want but since i've been to the real Angkor Wat so I not feel like going there. Walking through the stone bridge and going back by the wat bo bridge, we just found one small park. thank god it's raining, otherwise i'll be melted~~! I went to Wat Bo as well but nothing impressed~!















































On the way back from Wat Bo bridge to Old market area, finally, we've found one shopping center.... one and the only shopping center in Siem Reap Town. It's not so big but at least i can feel it's really feel like a shopping center. I bought one SWENSEN ice-cream there which cost USD1.20 one scoop.

Hanging around for a while... we went back to hostel again and dine in at night in Pub street. The last day free and easy trip is not so special but i still feel OK with it. I've found one restaurant which offers several types of BBQ such as snake, kangaroo, crocodile... etc. If you do not comfortable with the free and easy trip you might try out the Kampung Phluk Package which i'm not so interesting about that. Lastly, I would like to post my fried pork with white rice and soup for USD1.0.

























Remember to keep USD25 for Airport tax, service charge or whatever tax.