2009.8.16-8.29 family swim lessons in Cambodia

A family of three Cambodian-Vietnamese tour summary

During 4 months of preparation, we are a family of three from 8.16--8.29 calendar 14 days in Cambodia and Vietnam Tour finally came to a successful conclusion.

Her husband and daughter for the preparatory work for the higher evaluation, I would also like to take this journey of some summary here are going to go with a friend and share it.

Spirit vacations do not want to travel and get very nervous, 14 day trips I just chose four places: Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Ho Chi Minh and the Sinai.

Go to Cambodia mainly appreciate Angkor civilization, we lived in Siem Reap 4 night 5 days; went to Viet Nam is a holiday, select the online reputation of great beauty Nye Beach, on the beach stay 4 days 3 nights. Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh as plane landing and departure city are in the vicinity. Stroke following 8.16 Beijing-Phnom Penh {southern CZ32316: 15-21: 30}

8.17 Phnom Penh tour: the main hall of the Royal Palace and silver

8.18 Phnom Penh-Siem Reap (Mekong Express8: 30 – 14: 00), go to the mountain nesbakken, sunset

8.19-8.21 Angkor 3 Tour: small circle, big ring and outer ring

8.22 Siem Reap – Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam Airlines VN82213: 30-14: 30) $ 140/person $ 110/children

8.23 Mekong tour

8.24 Ho Chi Minh City tour

8.25 Ho Chi Minh — beautiful Nai (SINH CAFÉ bus 7: 30 – 13: 00) 90.000 shield/person

8.26-8.27 beauty Nye Beach leisure

8.28 beautiful Nai-Ho Chi Minh (T.M CAFÉ bus 13: 30-19: 00 pm) $ 5/person sleeping bus

8.29 Ho Chi Minh — Guangzhou (China Southern Airlines CZ3688: 20 – 12: 05)

Guangzhou – Beijing (China Southern Airlines CZ310915: 00 — 18: 00)

Are summarized as follows:

Visa: in Beijing, Viet Nam's visa to the Embassy to check I am.

A simple $ 35/person, Monday, Thursday. Cambodia visa is applied for, but charges a E-VISA some trouble, I am applying for the Sunday night, the deduction of payment at that time, but got no news on Wednesday, the call to the Consulate General in Shanghai, the attitude of the staff there is very poor, told me that there is nothing you can consult the E-VISA. Here to you some information: If you apply for e-visa after no information, you can call this telephone + 855-23224973, call me later with Beijing's Embassy to the side of the staff was very good, as long as reported on your reference number (reference no.) On the line, I am Friday morning call, you can DOWNLOAD at night. E-Visa: $ 25/person, $ 5/children. However we check in Beijing, the capital airport said never seen my E-VISA, let us also a little nervous a (smooth, however when the Baiyun Airport exit), because our Viet Nam visa is 8.22 take effect only if the day, so we even E-VISA invalid abroad have no chance to mention landing check. This is my current trip to the first failure, should allow visa also in Viet Nam 8.16 day to take effect.

Line: I know the China Southern Airlines has the plan X99, has been focus China Southern Airlines Web site, and to the end of March bought 8.16 Beijing-Phnom Penh (CZ323 $ 718/person Guangzhou with stops for departure), 8.29 Ho Chi Minh — Guangzhou — Beijing (CZ368 & CZ3113 $ 1145/person), totals $ 1863/person, children with the price.

I think it is very cost-effective, convenient connecting flights within the country, and airport staff led to the procedure of leave. Is our flights to Beijing Capital Airport delayed 1 hour before the flight, to only 40 minutes after the time machine 7 individuals in airport staff to run and led by the way, managed to successfully complete all formalities and check-in again. Return the original Beijing Guangzhou — set the day of the flight cancelled CZ3113, in Ho Chi Minh airport staff regarding temporary gave me replace the CZ3111 flights boarding card (pm 18: 00, at the time didn't notice). And so we went back to the airport of Guangzhou 3-C15 counter (the Director of the China Southern Airlines check-in counter) and again replaced CZ3109 flights (15: 00 take-off), we save a lot of time to wait.

Phnom Penh-Siem Reap: sit is the MEKONG EXPRESS bus, $ 11 per person (children), the condition can also have the bathroom.

Originally we live only to provide RIVER-STAR HOTEL ANGKOR EXPRESS ($ 8/person), we do not keep this hotel room just replace, impression too bad. Are cancelled in his house and buy the tickets, we own a House lived not far from the small supermarket clause, which you can set of tickets, then you can pick up the ticket, and condemnation.

Siem Reap-Ho Chi Minh: we sit is hang VN82213: 30-14: 30.

$ 140/person $ 110/children, are we to Siem Reap the driver took us to buy. I mainly consider if from Siem Reap – Ho Chi Minh sat coach so nearly 12 hours, our strength is a great challenge, because from the Phnom Penh-Siem Reap's six hours we already feel very uncomfortable, while sitting in the best conditions, MEKONG EXPRESS

Moreover, we also brought his daughter (9 years), so I took a bite, facts prove that day our trip very easily, daughter and husband after breakfast also in the hotel's swimming pool, play, 4 pm we had in Ho Chi Minh's street stroll.

Ho Chi Minh — beautiful Nai: when sitting in the bus SINH CAFÉ, 90.000/person (children), back to Ho Chi Minh's time because living hotel is close to OFFICE T.M BROTHER bought his house SLEEPING BUS, $ 5/person.

But it's not too late, said to be 13: 30 departure, ate the drivers, wait until the fast 14: 00 before departure. To 19: 00.

Accommodation: Phnom Penh: RIVER-STAR HOTEL, website: http://www.riverstarhotel.com/ADDRESS: Building # 185, street 118 corner with Sisowath phnom penh blod, a total of 2 night stay, strongly do not recommend this hotel.

In the River, very near from the Palace. Then I look at his site, free pick up service and room is a large bed and a small bed, more suitable for our family, set his RIVER VIEW ROOM $ 35/day, the day the results to all almost 11 o'clock at night has brought us into an even Windows have no room and told me no RIVER VIEW ROOM, this room is the same price. This is my 1 and a half months in advance, and 2 days before leaving I also sent a confirmation E-MAIL. Anger us early in the morning to the front of the representations, I'll get to other guests away before they give us a so-called RIVER VIEW ROOM, in fact, with a small balcony, room with front facilities are the same, very worn, very old, not being photographs on the website, grandiosity that do not know how many years ago in photos, small elevator ceiling had a big spider's Web. Her husband said I picked this hotel is the second trip.

Siem Reap: lived in online reputation good Willow hotel (4 stars), website: www.somadeviangkor.com, through ctrip.

$ 273/day, 4 night stay, domestic payments. Conditions are very good, each day from Angkor sweat back we all want to jump to his home to relax in the swimming pool. Husband's favorite is a kettle in the room, you can drink tea. From the old market, bar street and is close to the night market is, every meal we were strolling back to the hotel. Is it strange that we CHECK IN, the receptionist told me the extra payment every day children are $ 6/day breakfast, we are also recognized. But every time we directly after breakfast in the dining room to the payment of the $ 3/day breakfast. In addition to one morning at Sunrise breakfast didn't when packaged as a child, such as our billing to leave the front desk but also we pay $ 24 for breakfast charges, as there is no communication between the front desk and restaurant, but we note the circumstances no longer want.

Ho Chi Minh: live is a family hotel KIM ' S HOTEL, website: www.kimhotel.com, ADDRESS: 40/18 Bui vien str.-district 1. in a small street, very close to the market from Penang, SINH CAFÉ and T.M BROTHER on a street.

Go to several attractions of Ho Chi Minh and we all walk. I scheduled by mail, FIRST CLASS living ROOM there is a small terrace, $ 22/day, 4 night stay before and after, the conditions in the family hotel is nice, room is very clean, bathroom very clean, there is a small fridge, disadvantage is the room a bit small. Proprietress is warm will come back every day to go out and say hello, ask how the day feeling, several working girl are human beings meet our predecessors to after Hello, sometimes also with bad Chinese say to us: good night. We went to the United States when the big Al baggage at his house, et al, from the United States and he came back home, leaving from Ho Chi Minh earlier because of flight is let them transfer to airport for $ 8. If you go to Ho Chi Minh selected family hotel, is a good choice.

Beautiful Nai: live is SUNRISE RESORT. website: www.sunriseresort.com.vn .ADDRESS: 72 Nguyen dinh chieu street, Ham tien ward., this small resort to our family so much surprise so I look for in several of the Web site of the US-Sinai hotel, receive recommendations to select predecessors West Coast Hotel, but the room was expensive, either because a child to pay extra bed costs cheaper without swimming pool (with swimming pool is the children's conditions).

Until you see the hotel, I ask by mail, you have $ 40/3 room (breakfast included). it is in line with my request, and so we have found this small holiday village is really good, very clean, very large room with a large and a small two wooden bed very strong, there is a small fridge can be bought fruit. The furniture is simple but not simple, large, room toilet also is built along both sides of the swimming pool and two rows of houses, not to the total of 30 rooms, as if to 2 rooms and 3 rooms, each room is a two floor large glass sliding doors, the first of the two facing the sea, almost all of the rooms can be seen swimming pools, swimming pool is very clean, daily 8: 00-20: 00. Has its own private beach, beach chairs, pool side with chaise, there are several dining table in the middle of the pool and beach, our daily breakfast and lunch are all here to eat, blowing sea breeze, watching the sea, ate breakfast. Cozy! this is in the restaurant do not feel that it is his family buffet breakfast is not, is the point of the menu, each person can only point to a meal and a DRINK. There are probably five varieties it is relatively simple. The staff is very professional and every day the two fan floor glass scrubbed clean, the room cleaning is bare, the whole hotel is very quiet, all guests are quietly on the beach or swimming in a book orThe Sun, we stay in the beautiful Nai 4 days almost all of the hotel, the husband said that this is at the seaside, on the morning of the last day on the beach we also see the local fishermen fishing scenes, let his daughter excited! if shortcomings are his shower head water small. In general this pub is worth I would like to go to beautiful Nai friends passionately recommended! he home OFFICE near BROTHER T.M, walk or less than 5 minutes. So back to Ho Chi Minh's time sat a BROTHER of SLEEPING T.M BUS. Want to go to the beautiful Nai friends to his home to live lives, through the mail can be scheduled, does not require any deposit and the deduction of payment in advance.

Visit: Phnom Penh: only stayed for one day only in the morning and went to the Royal Palace and silver Temple.

Weather very hot and we hurried back to the hotel at noon, to negotiate with the hotels, for the room at noon in the room supplement, afternoon to go to Siem Reap's bus and go to the drugstore central market. Muggy central market, the air is extremely bad. We quickly came out, but go to a house next to the shopping mall, the shopping and eating at the top of the pot. The most important thing is to look at the top level of the city of Phnom Penh, is low, the old House, Phnom Penh, nothing good impression, it seems the palace nearby also.

Siem Reap: because it is free, Angkor Wat tour mainly I bring a book the Cambodia and Angkor Temple "in Beijing have time out to look at, and everywhere the temple I read it to her husband and daughter.

Let the husband and children to enjoy. The driver was when I was in domestic advance, Chinese drivers: jinsha wood meassavuth@yahoo.com, TEL: + 855-12822473. Is a very honest, trustworthy people. Chinese say good night, and now also to study Chinese. I was at home contact him by mail, he will get 3 half day trip to the mailbox. And so I went to Phnom Penh by phone after informing him that I was sitting in the company's bus and time, he would get to the station to meet us. We pack up his CAR 3 and a half days, including pick-up and transfer to airport, 2 day noon lunch break, two morning sunrise (except our own free time), there are half-way took us to buy a ticket, a total of $ 120. August's Siem Reap stuffy wet, we sweat a lot every day, and her husband play said this a few days out of sweat fast to catch a few years out of Khan, also good in the car will be briefly blowing cold air, full with CAR or worthwhile. 3 half days trip is full to his arrangements, not many in here, I shall not repeat them here and her husband are relatively uninhibited, think local drivers experience than us, and all come, courtesy of our trust in him, the whole Galaxy is hard wood, on time and on time. It is worth I recommend to everyone, but he is very busy, I'm ahead 1 1/2 months in advance. To the last day of the walk, have a Taiwan guests Pack to outer ring his car, he did not take us to the airport, but delegate a TUTU car friends to send (and little meets the wish of her daughter sat TUTU), Midway also Cust intimate asked whether we are successfully connected to the head. In a few days to visit frequently to daughter buy a pineapple, Khmer of cookies, we eat bamboo rice, etc, we are back to please him, let him go and eat local hot-pot. Finally we gave $ 125. In short a few days in Siem Reap, we had a good time.

Here also to go to Siem Reap friends sincerely say, never with the group!, Angkor Wat beauty your heart to feel quietly.

In women the Palace we encounter group tours, see mood all the time. See Angkor's sunset time all tours are gone, they left in Angkor is more fit to witness the splendor of the sunset, setting sun sun shines on Angkor temple on a working day, around the camera quickly pressing the shutter, and only a short period of less than ten minutes of Angkor Temple will also restore the original color, there are high Dobbs bin and disintegrating mealea, tours to tourist attractions, while the two spots I identified as subject to Angkor, essence, watching the day many so many temples and frescoes, the eyes are somewhat aesthetic fatigue. While both of these attractions is a bit like in the original forest adventure that makes people excited again. The collapse of schools across the dense column, let my daughter also feeling the original there are so broken for schools, we took away from the domestic some pencils and Eraser, gave the children, there are schools that from Scotland volunteers, 20 years old young man I admire.

Ho Chi Minh: on the city's most impressive is the motorcycle too much, to participate in the Mekong tour guide that 900 million people, over 600 million motorcycle.

We spent 2 days in total. Participated in the CAFÉ Mekong tour SINH, 210.000/person. The general feeling that her husband's ancient Shiba authentic half days are too lazy to go again. The rest of the day are we holding maps to urban areas the attractions go again, also very random, tired and went to parkson upstairs drink beverage break. Noon meet rain in SAIGON CENTRE of frontage of coffee over a cup of coffee to enjoy the city view. The evening went to Penang market generally at the edge of the night market buy something for your family.

Us-Sinai: Sinai is a quiet, rustic town that folkway is also very simple.

Not too much entertainment, here let people at ease. We almost every day in the hotel, with beautiful Nai half-day tour went, we rented at the hotel two bikes (20.000/car) take the child to ride a SINH CAFÉ direction. According to a few like that in the East of SINH CAFÉ a market to buy some fruit. Every day we take the children on the beach and swimming pool alternately playful, or on the couch and enjoy the Sun and the sea breeze.

Eat: Phnom Penh: nothing to recommend, because they stay for a day, evening and went to the central market House next to the shopping centre's top ate a good meal hot pot, nothing special.

Siem Reap: mainly in the old market and the bar street eat because of amoke series is not used, normally we point 2

A FRID series of fried vegetables, rice is free to add, and then a cup of coffee or SHAKE, General $ 10/piece. In the "forest gold" ate the meal, environment in General. Cheaper but he's skeptical of health conditions. Also ate the meal KFC, taste weird.

Ho Chi Minh: mainly PHO24 and PHO2000, her husband and daughter likes to eat, think PHO24 environment than PHO2000 slightly better point, as if each bowl of rice prices are more expensive than PHO2000 1000-2000 guilders.

There are a lot of stall, the night market is also having a lot of foreigners in eating, you can try.

Beautiful Nai: is a family of three of the most interesting of stuttering.

This is mainly thanks to the BOKE House SEA FOOD meal, we in the United States is in the SUNRISE each day Nye Beach ate a light breakfast, midday Brighton fruit meal to focus of pitaya, watermelon, and then to 4 p.m. after a half bath, along the beautiful Nai only one path to BOKE House for SEA FOOD meal, BOKE of open gears are hard to find, in the OFFICE from T.M BROTHER go my way, SINH CAFÉ seemed to leave the OFFICE closer to T.M, we walked from SUNRISE RESORT probably 10 minutes away, just across the street, where you can see the sea, in the beautiful NAI's three in the afternoon we went to eat the seafood is fresh and also very cheap, daughter likes to eat his scallops BBQ, dip mixed up with lemon juice and pepper, then a locals eat leaves Pack (I feel like pepper leaf), eat into mouth taste very good. Her husband is on his family's fish pot (FISH HOT SPOT) praise, a fine kettle of fish soup with a charcoal stove served, proprietress of a plate of rice noodles and a dish of vegetables, rice noodles pour fish soup, sweet fresh whole account, and then drink the fish soup and eat fish, vegetables, like vegetables hot pot. The last day we eat a fish pot, a dish of scallops with BBQ, a plate of fried prawns with soft, steamed 2 live crabs, a total of only 273000 shield (RMB 110 million). Let us feel very values, each finished are belly drum drum and back to the hotel, go back on the road and then take the first 2 days of fruit bought at noon, and of course the hotel also sells (didn't buy too don't know price). Maybe BOKE House seafood gave us the impression was so good that we worked for 3 days to go to his home to eat, you might also eat I can only recommend the place to go. His house every day at 4 p.m. opening, female boss English better than the men who, mainly responsible for guests. Want to go to the beautiful Nai holiday friends have to taste his seafood.

Shopping: Cambodia: Siem Reap major shopping is at night, Phnom Penh central market didn't go in, too messy! Siem Reap's old market is a mess, Siem Reap's night market environment better limited, scarves offer $ 4, $ 2 transaction, bought 5; Ms. package price of $ 15, $ 8 close, bought 1; bear the name bracelet Cambodia bid $ 1/a, $ 1/2 a deal.

Siem Reap's *: $ 1.5/kg, expensive than the supermarket in Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh I in SUPERMARKET-bought fresh mangosteen LUCY as many only $ 0.8, whereas in Siem Reap to my $ 1.5.

Viet Nam: mainly in Ho Chi Minh's Penang market and night night market to family bought.

Daughter of a Mayele offer 250.000 shield, shield deal; husband 100.000 round neck and short sleeves (chest with 3 capsules buckle) offer 180.000 shield, 80.000 contract; Dad's belt offer 410.000 shield, shield deal; wooden 260.000 of Viet Nam girls offer 260.000 shield, Ms. 85.000 deal; silk surface package offer 180.000 shield/a, 170.000 shield/2 transactions;

Coffee: for the first time in Penang market to buy, buy 1000g, 425.000 shield, last transaction to 260.000; however careful clerk switching, we are all about good price after was about to pay, the little girl is going to put a package offer low coffee-we pack a little expensive coffee, we stopped in time.

The second is bought at the night market, 200.000 shield/500g, last 130.000 shield deal. By Viet Nam's shopping experience is to price pressure in the lower, the better, and think that I bought there is also the price of the room. Just my limited ability.

Exchange rate: Cambodia: no need to replace the local currency, dollar General, just less than $ 1 to you real, is basically a $ 1: 4000 Riel.

Viet Nam: Basic is 1 USD: 17819 shield, we at the airport for a maximum 1: 17850, basic in Ho Chi Minh City is within 1: 17819, but is limited to the greater than or equal to $ 50 denominations, small denominations of the exchange rate is very low.

We want to trade in the United States and Nigeria $ 20, asked T.M OFFICE, is 1: 17000, we live in the hotel front desk for just 1: 17800, so we better impression SUNRISE RESORT. Then superimpose in Ho Chi Minh for $ 15, the exchange rate was less than 17000, is the most kitchen sink once.

These are our family in Cambodia and Vietnam 14 days travel summary, hoping to go to the local friends provide some recommendations and reminders.

This would also like to thank the many ctrip predecessors, I give up before leaving a lot of help.