A nice city to come back to every evening after a day at Angkor! (Siem Reap)

Member Name: Pablo_Sevilla

Product:	Siem Reap
Date:	29/05/09 (8 review reads)
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Advantages: Pub Street and it's nightlife, great resturants, good budget accommodation

Disadvantages: Developers are moving in big time!

Siem Reap is quite a pleasant riverside city and the place to arrange your visit to the Angkor ruins to the north.

It's significantly less hectic than Phnom Penh and the locals are a little more friendly, the city isn't far from the Laos border and you may hear Lao being spoken in the markets by some locals rather than the native Khmer tongue.

Pub Street is a street with some great bars (better than Phnom Penh) and nightclubs so after you are done with seeing the Angkor ruins in the daytime you can party here in the evening!

There are plenty of great resturants serving everything from Mexican to khmer noodles (check out the food vendors along Pub Street for cheap filling noodle and rice dishes).

Budget accomodation is plentiful and can be found easily for 4 or 5$ a night.

You can also arrange trips to the floating village an hour away by tuk tuk and boat. Last time I was there you could get a return trip with some gentle haggling for 15$.

Siem Reap is a great place from which to explore the Angkor ruins and the nightlife and riverside are plus points for the city itself.

It's just a shame all this money from Angkor's popularity is leading to the foreign developers coming and building big ugly concrete hotels.

Summary: Go and see Angkor in the day then in the evening go out and have fun on Pub Street!