by Ebru | Jul 10, 2015 | SeedsonWheels |
After 100 meters of walking through the gate, a couple of kilometers away from Aranyaprathet –a border town of Thailand-, we enter Cambodia. In several minutes, we get our visa for 30 days after paying 30$ and start waiting for the bus to go to Siem Reap. Currency of Cambodia is US Dollars ($). Riel is also in use, but especially in big settlements and touristic areas, prices are in $. While paying, dollars and riels are used together and make us calculate regularly as 4000 Riels = 1 $. We take a minibus to Siem Reap for 9 $ per person. Siem Reap is the tourism capital of Cambodia, because there areTemples of Angkor. We find a double room for 7 $, a bit out of the center. Cambodia is not as cheap as we expected from the articles we read before. Or our expectation is too low due to our low budget after one year on the road. You can rent a bicycle, motorcycle or a tuk tuk to go to Angkor from Siem Reap. A good stamina and a couple of days are needed to visit the place by bicycle both because of the distance and the heat. We visit Angkor by renting a tuk tuk for 10 $ for a day. Also 20 $/per person is paid as an entrance fee for one day. Angkor is a temple complex in a large area surrounded by a forest. Angkor Wat, Angor Thom and Ta Phrom are some of the most important temples. You can find information about Angkor everywhere; if you hear about it for the...
by Sezgin | May 1, 2015 | SeedsonWheels |
We enter Nepal from Kakarbhitta border by walking, after passing the bridge between India and Nepal. We wouldn’t even go through passport check if he hadn’t enter the single-store building after seeing the small old signboard on it. We get our visa in a couple of minutes after paying 40$ as enrty fee and the one page form to smiling policemen. There are 450 kilometers to reach Kathmandu. Our journey starts after buying a bus ticket from the bus station just next to the border for 1000 Rs. (15 $) with one of the “non-AC” buses. We travel for 17 hours waggling with never ending music. There is no other way of getting used to long and shaking trips, even if you are travelling with the most comfortable bus. We arrive to Kathmandu early in the morning and settle in a hotel, named Blue Diamond, in the touristic center, Thamel. 800 Rs. (10 $) for a room per day is cheap for this location, but it is possible to stay in Basanthapur, the old city center close to Thamel, for a cheaper price. Thamel’s streets, full of souvenir shops selling colorful Nepalese cloths and trekking equipment, usually end in a small square full of temples. We also shop for trekking while exploring Kathmandu. There are both cheap local restaurants and luxurious restaurants serving world cuisine in Thamel. After India, it is also easy in Nepal to find vegetarian food. “Dhal Bhat”, consisted of rice, a dish like lentil soup and another food mostly including potato, is the main dish in Nepal. Most of the Nepalese eat this two times...
by Sezgin | Sep 24, 2014 | SeedsonWheels |
We found ourselves in the land of a fairy tale since the time we step in Cappadocia. An odyssey of 10 days started in Avanos and ended in Ihlara Valley. While travelling towards Avanos, the view around us is different than everything we saw before… The only similarity I can describe is the surface of Mars, as much as I saw on photographs. Or an archaic planet from the universe of Star Wars… But definitely, not a place from this world. After a while, we see some fairy chimneys rising in the middle of the land. A gallery in which nature represents its supernatural crafts… But what we have seen until now, is just a postcard for tourists… We leave Avanos, where we stayed for one night, and go towards the south of Kızılırmak. While we are approaching Göreme, some details are added to the postcard that we are in. Human art added into the nature’s work. Rooms and houses made into soft rock. Drawings on fairy chimneys looks like made by fairies… In Göreme, we could visit just some of the houses in a land beyond our horizon. It feels like travelling in time and visiting the houses of people thousands years ago. In the rooms we visit, we are trying to understand the feelings of the people who lived there once upon a time, by looking at the drawings on the walls and designs of the homes. From high houses with a good view to halls with a small entrance, from geometric drawings to asymmetric designs, we explore how they designed their living...
