HHard to believe this is our last day in Southeast Asia. We have seen so much, had amazing food, experienced gracious hospitality and gotten out of our comfort zone more than a few times. We slept in a little and then headed down to breakfast in the Park Hyatt café. Breakfast was included and similar to the Sheraton there was a wonderful buffet of unusual fruits, yummy pastries and in addition to the omelet station, a pho station too. As much as Ken thinks no...

This morning was a sleep in kind of day, then a leisurely breakfast with Ken finishing up his work stuff from last night.  This was our last day in Cambodia, but since our flight didn't leave until 630p, we had some time to do one last activity. After some research and looking at varying options, I chose the floating village of Kompong Phluk. There are several floating villages and one, Chong Kneas is roundly criticized by all as extremely touristy and has...

4:45am came way to early, but against some half-hearted protests from Ken, we were doing Angkor Wat at sunrise. There had been varying opinions on whether it was worth it, but I figured we had come half-way around the world to see Angkor Wat, we might as well do the sunrise thing too. Oh, and by the way we were going on bicycles.  We were out in front of our hotel at 5am, where Chiva was waiting with our bikes. All is good so far, except for one small thing.....

It is amazing what a great night of sleep can do, especially when there is fully functioning A/C. As is the norm for traveling West, we fell asleep early, which means you wake up equally early. We have become quite happy with our lodging, as the workers are gracious, always smiling and greeting you with hands in a prayer mode.  My brother Rick, who is a minister with the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church, has good friends, Tim and Wendy who run a school/orpha...