{"id":23,"date":"2005-06-27T06:52:58","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T05:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airstudios.com\/simonandolga\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-07-04T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:00:00","slug":"cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone<\/p>\n<p>We flew to Siam Reap on Saturday and managed to find a nice clean hotel in the centre, although our driver did try several times to take us to his brother&#8217;s\/dad&#8217;s&#8221;hotel out in the sticks somewhere! We spent a 12-hour day on Sunday looking at the Bayon and Angkor Wat temples&#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/bayon.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/olgaface.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/angkor.JPG' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/apsara.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/angkorwater.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/angkormonks.jpg' alt='' \/><br \/>\n &#8230;and watched an amazing sunset from the top of a hill overlooking Angkor Wat.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.airstudios.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/sunset.JPG' alt='' \/>  We fell straight asleep when we got in, and  my legs still hurt! Although there are a lot of nice bars and restaurants here, the local people are mostly very poor, and many children don&#8217;t go to school. There were a lot of children and land-mine victims begging for money, which we were later told is collected by the mafia. A lot of the money that comes from tourists also seems to go straight to foreign hotel-owners who pay their staff about $30 a month wages. One project that seems to have made a big difference is the childrens hospital here that was set up by a French doctor and treats children from all over Cambodia for free.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of love<\/p>\n<p>Si and Olga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone We flew to Siam Reap on Saturday and managed to find a nice clean hotel in the centre, although our driver did try several times to take us to his brother&#8217;s\/dad&#8217;s&#8221;hotel out in the sticks somewhere! We spent a 12-hour day on Sunday looking at the Bayon and Angkor Wat temples&#8230; &#8230;and watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}