A Borneon's Wanderful Odyssey in Cambodia

This post marks my final entry on the “Amazing Cambodia” series. Click on the links below to read the previous entries:

On the fifth day of our Cambodia trip, Rainbow and I had to travel back to Phnom Penh from Siem Reap as out flight back to KL took off the very next day from the Phnom Penh Airport. Our tour ended on the fifth day, so after our journey back to Siem Reap, everything would be on our own.

The tour guide was super kind to have purchased for us the bus tickets to Siem Reap. And we didn’t even have the chance to give him some tips before we departed. Le sigh.

Honestly, I kind of prefer Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. Although Siem Reap has more places of attraction, Phnom Penh is slightly more developed and dynamic although a little messy like Malaysia’s Pudu Raya.

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This is a continuation of my entries on the “Amazing Cambodia” series. Click on the respective links to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Shortly after I came back from my trip, about 80% of the photos I took in Cambodia – which you’re going to see in this post and the next – were accidentally deleted off Rainbow’s memory card.

There was no backup.

And the photos deleted were the GIST of my Cambodia trip.

I was really upset about it and about to give up, until one fine afternoon when I was told by Rainbow that she had not taken any new photos with the memory card consisting of the deleted photos.

I was elated, as I was suddenly reminded that photo recovery is possible if no new photos are taken with the memory card where photos are deleted.

On the same night, I worked extremely hard searching for and cracking photo-recovery softwares with Rainbow on the other end of MSN.

In the end, a total of 834 photos were successfully recovered, although 40 or so were corrupted.

The reason why I said this post is the gist, is because it consists of a shitload of photos I took in Angkor Watt – one of the wonders of the world! Mai siao siao!

It was only our third day in Cambodia when my 2GB memory card already ran out of memory at the Tonle Sap lake. I totally forgot to bring along my other 2GB memory card and had to borrow Rainbow’s extra memory card in the end.

So on the fourth day we finally got to visit the legendary Angkor Wat, where we entered through Angkor Thom (they call it the “big Angkor”) via its South gate. Photos below depict scenes at the South entrance.