Trésor D'Angkor Villas & Resort: The Dream Hotel in Siem Reap
We came to Siem Reap to go to the famous UNESCO world heritage site Angkor Wat and had a gread time there! During our Cambodia Vacation in Siem Reap, we stayed a couple of nights in the amazing Trésor D'Angkor Villas & Resort and had such a great experience there. We would love to go back there soon. The Trésor D'Angkor Villas & Resort is one of my favourite Hotels in the World ♥
I love this Hotel
After a few busy days in Cambodians Capital Phnom Penh, the Trésor D'Angkor Villas & Resort feels like Paradise! The Resort is about 2 km outside of Siem Reap, which makes it perfect. We are staying in the pure nature with beautiful butterflys, away from the noisy city.
The Trésor D'Angkor Villas & Resort has 9 Villas with 18 rooms. 2 Rooms have a private pool. In the middle of the resort is a beautiful garden with a saltwater pool. Around the pool are many relax chairs with comfortable matrices and sun umbrellas and 8 relax chairs inside the nice pool.
View from the roof top
The beautiful furnished lobby is surrounded by a nice little lake with fishes inside. That means there are almost no Mosquitos, jippii :) When we arrived, the staff welcomed us very friendly and we got a delicious welcome drink and a cold towel.
Entrance of the Trésor D'Angkor Villas & Resort
Next to the lobby is the restaurant, where the guests enjoy a very tasty breakfast buffet and optional lunch and dinner.
The breakfast buffet of the Trésor D'Angkor Villas & Resort consists of 2 warm dishes, like fried rice and Cambodian noodles, which changes every day. Then they have a variety of fresh fruits, different kinds of bread and croissants, cereals, marmalade, etc. Besides that everybody can choose a dish out of a breakfast menu. We enjoyed the breakfast a lot, it was very delicious!
The coffee and the variety of tea is very very good in the restaurant of the Trésor D'Angkor Villas & Resort.
The Sunset Lounge, which is on the roof top of the lobby, is the perfect spot to have a drink and watch the sunset in the late afternoon.
beautiful salt-water pool
The modern architecture of the villas and the whole resort is amazing, I really love this style.
The rooms are huge and very comfortable. They are furnished with a king size bed, a bench in front of it to sit on, a coffee table and a TV. Every room has a desk as well.
Huge rooms with everything you could wish for
In the room are tea and coffee-making facilities and complimentary water.
The room is divided from the huge bathroom by a curtain. The bathroom provides a very nice shower and a bathtube and you have a lot of space. I loved taking a bath and relaxing there.
They have a gym with garden with a great pool view as well. We didn't do sports, but it is definitely nice to have, if you are staying a little longer. Everything seems to be brand new and nice.
Gym with pool view
The resort offers their hotel guests to use really nice mountain bikes, to bike around Siem Reap and explore the city by yourself. We haven't had enough time, but we wanted to do it. I think this is a great opportunity to see a lot.
They have a shuttle service to the Town as well. This offer is really great. The lovely drivers brought us to the night market and picked us up at a settled time.
The staff is so friendly and helpful. We love the Cambodian locals, they are very good people.
The Trésor D'Angkor was opened one year ago and it is a magical place for me. I will definitely come back soon. This is the perfect place to spend a few relaxed days or weeks, to celebrate a anniversary or your honeymoon.
Find more information about the Hotel and book it here: Trésor D'Angkor in Siem Reap
Angkor Heritage Boutique Hotel in Siem Reap
The Angkor Heritage Boutique Hotel is a great 4 Star Hotel with a beautiful pool in the tropical garden. It is a place to relax and enjoy with a lot of opportunities around it. The Hotels has 30 well appointed spacious rooms and we can highly recommend it for familys as well.
We enjoyed 3 days there, relaxed at the pool, went for sightseeing to the Angkor Wat Temple complex, which is a UNESCO Heritage Site and had a really great time in Siem Reap!
When you walk in this beautiful Hotel, you feel like in a tropical garden. There are so many plants and flowers, it is really nice. This buddha statue is in the middle of the lot.
tropical garden
Our hotel room in the Angkor Heritage Boutique Hotel was very big and we felt like home there. Everything is arranged nice for the guests. The four-poster bed is definitely a highlight in the rooms and we slept so good there. On the wall in front of the bed is a TV hanging. The room is furnished with a desk and a coffee and tea station as well. We had everything we needed for our few vacation days in the Angkor Heritage Boutique Hotel in Siem Reap.
our huge hotel room
my dream bed :)
Another highlight of our stay in the Angkor Heritage Boutique Hotel was our huge balcony with a perfect view of the garden and the pool. We were sitting there often, talking and relaxing.
huge balcony with a view of the tropical garden and the pool
our nice view from the balcony
After a half day walking through the ruins of the UNESCO Heritage Site of Angkor Wat, we needed to take a break and relax a couple of hours at the pool. I loved that there were not so many people and I really enjoyed, that this hotel is a quiet hotel, 15 minutes away from the busy city center.
Our stay at the Angkor Heritage Boutique Hotel included a delicious breakfast buffet. It was set up very graceful and they had a good variety of food. When we are traveling I love to eat like a local, so I had noodle soup for breakfast in Cambodia.
Breakfast buffet
This is a great Hotel, a few minute drive from the city center and the night markets of Siem Reap. If you are planning a trip to Angkor Wat and Siem Reap check availability and rates for the Hotel here: Angkor Heritage Boutique Hotel
7 Things To Do In Khao San Road
Khao San Road is one of the Must-Dos in Bangkok. It is known as the backpacker street in Thailands capital city. In this road and the whole area around are a lot of Hostels, cheap Hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs. It is always fun to hang out there and meet new people!
This years they put up this funny sign with 7 Things To Do In Khao San Road:
sign in Khao San Road
- Visit Wat Chana Songkhram
- Check Out Khao San Museum
- Enjoy The Real Thai Food
- Get A Tattoo
- Relax With Thai Massage
- Buy Silver And Handcraft Art
- Rock The Night Out
- Visit the Wat Chana Songkhram! This temple is right across the Police Station at the end of Khao San Road. (in direction Mc Donalds, NOT Burger King ;) )
The temple is open from 6am till 6pm! To respect the culture and the locals, it is always recommended to wear pants or a sarong for girls and not to show legs or shoulders! - The Khao San Garden is the only museum in this street. This combines a museum with a library and a french cafe. Unfortunately we haven't been there yet, but I promise, we will go next time! (Tuesday - Sunday: 10 am - 9 pm)
- There is a great variety of cafe's, restaurants and bars in Khao San, where you can find delicious thai food, but western dishes as well. My favorite thai dishes are green curry, massaman curry and garlic chicken with rice! Enjoy the tasty food!
- There are a couple of tattoo shops, where you can make a memory of your amazing vacation in Thailand!
- The Thai Massages are sooo good! I haven't seen a street with more massage places than in Khaosan and the parallel streets. I love Charlys Massage: sitting there, enjoying a 30 minute foot massage for 150 baht and watching the people walking up and down the street :)
- Don't miss out on the great opportunity to buy Silver and Handcraft Arts in Thailand. They have a good selection of silver jewelry! I love to buy a new ring, which reminds me every day of a great holiday!
- Rock the night out! My favorite bar is the roof bar, where they have live bands every night! You can sit at the open windows with a view of the Khaosan Road, drink cocktails or the famous Chang beer and make new friends!
DO WHAT YOU LOVE, DO IT OFTEN AND ALWAYS TRAVEL WITH AN OPEN MIND!
Love,
Ina
The Sanctuary Villa Battambang - Our Hotel In Battambang
Our last stop on our Cambodia Tour was the nice little town called Battambang in north western Cambodia. We stayed at The Sanctuary Villa Battambang for 2 nights before we headed to Bangkok. This amazing hotel looks a little like a Khmer Buddhist Temple, which is very nice and makes difference .
All the rooms a beautiful villas with a terrace. The black furnished rooms look very elegant and we felt very comfortable there.
Our terrace at The Sanctuary Villa Battambang
elegant furnished rooms
It is great to have a lot of space in a hotel room. The bathroom was amazing, additional to the walk-in shower, our villa had a jacuzzi too. Every villa has a flatscreen tv and a dvd player as well.
Salt-water pool
The weather was sunny and we could enjoy our time at the nice salt-water pool. The comfortable relax chairs are perfect to read or chill and get a tan. I loved the nice trees and flowers around the pool. We saw a lot of butterflies.
The Sanctuary Villa Battambang has a great kitchen. The breakfast buffet at the outside restaurant was very tasty! They offered khmer dishes, western breakfast and fresh fruits with coffee, tea and different juices.
We also had a delicious lunch there. The table is set up very graceful. Before the main dish, the staff served us fresh and warm bread with butter. They made perfect khmer dishes, like the famous beef lok lak and chicken amok. I tried my first chicken amok there and i loooved it! It came in a little baking dish with a lid and was served very nice.
The staff of the hotel is very friendly and helped us planning our next bus trip to Bangkok. Whenever you want to go to the city center, which is about 5 minutes away by tuktuk, they call a tuktuk for you and take care of every matter.
It was a very nice stay in Battambang and we would like to go there again. Find more information about this beautiful Hotel: The Sanctuary Villa Battambang
How To Make A Lava Cake - Recipe
Jeremy and I had a great Lava Cake in Bangkok two weeks ago. I am still dreaming about it, so I decided to try to make it :) Here is our secret Lava Cake Recipe for you!
After a few minutes of magic in the kitchen, the lava cake was ready to eat and it was soooo delicious, that I want to share the recipe with you!
Lava cake made with love
Lava Cake Recipe
- 100 gr dark chocolate
- 50 gr butter
- 50 gr sugar
- 1/2 tea spoon vanilla sugar
- 1 spoon flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 eggs
- a little bit of cacao powder
It is really easy to make and takes only about 10 minutes to prepare and another 12 minutes of patience while it is in the oven :)
- Put the dark chocolate with the butter in a bowl and let it melt in the microwave or in a water bath.
- Mix in a second bowl the sugar, vanilla sugar, flour and salt with the 2 eggs with a hand mixer until it is a dough.
- Then add the cooled off chocolate cream from bowl #1 and mix it until it is creamy.
- Prepare the muffin trays with a layer of butter and sprinkle it with cacao powder.
- Fill the dough in your muffin trays.
- bake it for 10-12 minutes at 180 degree Celcius.
Lava cake after baking
Lava cake ready to eat
It tastes very good with fruits and ice cream. Hope you love it the same as we do!
Love,
Ina
Best Accommodation In Bangkok
Our last destination of our South East Asia Trip before we were flying home for Christmas was Bangkok, Thailands amazing and busy capital. It is always difficult to find a good, but affordable Hotel in this crazy city. It is one of the top travel destinations in the world! But I think we found the Best Accommodation in Bangkok ♥
Of course the Hotel should be in a good lactation, the rooms should be nice and clean and a pool would be nice as well. We were spending so much time looking for Hotels on booking.com without finding something great.
Airbnb came back into our mind and we checked if we can find something cool. While we were scrolling through the app for Airbnb Bangkok and we found a very nice looking apartment. It is in the perfect location, with a 45 squaremeter size and a pool on the roof top. Everything sounded amazing and the little flat had all we could wish for. It was the best accommodation for us in Bangkok!
The Best Accommodation In Bangkok
living room at Milk's apartment
So we went there, met the lovely owner Milk for checkin and spent 3 great days in this nice Airbnb apartment Bangkok.
It is in downtown Bangkok, really close to the BTS and to the Terminal 21 shopping mall. It is the perfect location: a few steps to good restaurants, bars and cafés, only a few minutes walk to go shopping, 5 - 10 minutes drive to Siam Center, MBK, Pratunam Market, etc. It could not be better!
The 45m2 apartment is on the 11th floor of a really nice and safe condo. It has a huge living room with a kitchen with a table and 2 chairs, a big relax sofa, TV and everything you need. You can also wash your clothes in the washer there, which is perfect for backpackers!
kitchen at Milk's apartment
In the second room is the comfortable bed, which is good for 2 people and a balcony.
bedroom at Milk's apartment
The condo has a really nice pool on the 11th floor as well and there is a fitness studio in the condo.
We loved relaxing at the pool and there were not a lot of people. Compared to a busy Hotel, that was like paradise :)
The Best Accommodation in Bangkok - in a perfect location
In the gound floor is a little shopping mall with a lot of restaurants and cafés. You can find thai, korean, japanese, italian food around without walking more than 2 minutes.
We walked about 5 minutes to the BTS station Asoke, from where we could go everywhere by skytrain for a few baht.
MBK Shopping Mall, just a few skytrain stops away
Milk, the owner of the apartment is such a lovely woman. Finally we met her for the check in and she showed us everything in the condo and the flat and explained what we needed to know. We were talking for half and hour and had a good time with her!
She also has a tourist office and does private tours. So if you are planning to see Bangkok with a local, Milk is the perfect girl to do that! Talk to her what you want to see and do, and she will plan an individual and unforgettable trip for you!
The price is 32Euro a night. I think that is very cheap for what you get!
Find more information about this nice airbnb here: airbnb.de/bangkok/3712763 rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
Because accommodations are usually so much bigger than a hotel room, we really love Airbnbs. It is also cheaper and you are not in the touristy areas, where they charge you more for everything. Besides that it is very nice to meet the Airbnb apartment owners, who are normally locals and can give you good advise for sightseeing, shopping and restaurants.
So contact Milk to stay at her amazing apartment - the best accommodation in Bangkok or plan a tour with her!
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Oriental Spa - Perfect Day In Phnom Penh
In the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh we can highly recommend the Oriental Spa, which offers great Spa packages.
It is located at the #8, Street 258 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which was only a short scooter ride away from the Ben Thanh Market, where our Hotel was.
enjoying a very delicious welcome-tea
We arrived at the Oriental Spa and got a really delicious cambodian tea and started to relax. The friendly staff gave us a menu and explained what kind of spa packages they offer.
Jeremy and I picked two different Spa packages. We both got a fantastic relax massage, which we enjoyed a lot. Jeremy got a body scrub and a head massage after.
He loved it and felt very good after our 2,5 hour Spa treatment.
After the great relax massage I got a facial treatment. The lovely lady massaged my face and I got the best face mask, I have ever had! It felt cold and very very relaxing! My skin was very soft and I felt good and happy after that treatment.
The Oriental Spa uses only high quality products, which we really appreciate. They care about their customers and made us so happy!
After my facial treatment I changed the room and enjoyed a foot scrub.
Foot scrub
I was sitting next to Jeremy in the relax chairs, we drank another delicious Cambodian tea and I swear Jeremy's skin was soo soft after his body scrub. It felt like baby skin, which was amazing!
We had a great time and enjoyed 2 lovely spa packages at the Oriental Spa in Phnom Penh. The manager and the staff are so friendly and nice.
perfect day at Oriental Spa in Phnom Penh
Our plan was to find a place, where they would produce and print 100 Open Mind Travelers T-Shirts with our logo, and so we asked the manager if he has an advice for us. He made a few phone calls and helped us a lot, which we really appreciate.
The staff at Oriental Spa are really nice and good people!
So if you are planning a trip to cambodians capital Phnom Penh, do yourself the favor and get an amazing spa package at Oriental Spa!
Our Year 2015: Traveling Around The World
First of all, we wish you a happy and healthy new year 2016!
The last 365 days were full of travels and adventures for us.
Jeremy moved to Germany in January and in February we decided to start a travel blog. Our goal is to inspire people and make them travel the world, experience other cultures, try foreign dishes and be open minded.
Our first small trips together lead us to Prague in the Czech Republic and to Porto to celebrate Jeremy's birthday in February in Portugal. To travel to new citys is always exciting and fun for us.
John Lennon Wall in Prague, Czech Republic
Porto, Portugal
We are so passionate about traveling and we always want to see more.
In May we went on a road trip with my convertible car from Germany to Croatia for 2 weeks and had a really great time. A couple from a little beach town near Dubrovnik invited us to a barbecue and he grilled great sausages for us. We will never forget that amazing evening.
Plitvice Lakes in Croatia
The vacation days at work are always limited and 5 weeks of vacation is not much, when your goal is to see every country in the would :)
So we decided to do more trips like your Croatia road trip and I quit my online marketing job with one crying and one smiling eye. (find my Blog Post "Why I Quit My Job To Travel The World" here)
At the end of July I finished work and since then we are full time traveler and digital nomads.
We left our flat and started a 5 week road trip to visit Holland, Belgium, France and Spain, but realized that we need a van next time, because it was not that easy to find wifi and affordable hotels in the high season.
Cathedral in Burgos, Spain
In September we stayed a few weeks with my family in Germany, before we were heading out to South East Asia.
100 days of traveling started in Kopenhagen, where we meet Jeremy's friend and stayed with him for a few days. Kopenhagen was amazing and riding a bike there was so much fun.
Bike Tour through Copenhagen, Denmark
The next destination was Bangkok, which was the door to South East Asia, from where we went to Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, back to Thailand and home to Germany for Christmas.
Skybar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Riding our bikes to the beach in Hoi An, Vietnam
Amazing Tempel Tour in Angkor Wat, Cambodia
It was the most exciting year of our life so far:
We have been to 17 countries together (Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia, Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, Denmark, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia). We found new delicious dishes, tryed things we never ate before, like jelly fish salat, snails and krokodile.
What are your future travel plans? Let us know in the comments below!
DO WHAT YOU LOVE, DO IT OFTEN
AND ALWAYS TRAVEL WITH AN OPEN MIND!
Best Spa in Siem Reap: Kaya Spa
Our second destination in Cambodia was the amazing Siem Reap. We spend 4 nights there and had a great time.
One highlight was our 5 days in Siem Reap was the half day Spa Package at the Kaya Spa.
I really loved this place from the beginning. The staff is so friendly and nice. The lobby looks so lovely. Everything was decorated so perfect and made us feel good.
Perfect Day at Kaya Spa
The half day package includes a visit at the very interesting Senteurs d'Angkor Workshop, a 60 minute massage and to make the day perfect a super delicious degustation of khmer desserts at Kaya Café, which is right next door.
For the 60 minute massage, we could choose one of three massages: foot reflexology or ancient khmer massage or aromatherapy massage.
Kaya Spa Lounge
At first, we got a very nice welcome drink, which was a lemon juice with mint. It was so refreshing on this hot day. Then we could decide which massage we would like to have and smell the different aroma oils.
delicious welcome drink and essential oils in the background
I read at the Kaya Spa, that the Ancient Khmer Massage follows the energy lines of the body and releases pain. I have had a headache for 3 days, so I thought, this is the perfect massage for me.
Jeremy picked the Aromatherapy Massage, which combines several methods to relieve tension and reduces stress. He picked a very good essential oil for that. We could choose parts of our body, which we want them to focus, which was perfect.
The therapy rooms were very nice and quiet. At first we were offered to take a shower and we could use their amazing natural shower gels.
beautiful therapy room: it's time to relax
Then the therapist came for the massage. I enjoyed every single minute and I didn’t want the massage to end. It felt so good, from the toe to the head and I loved the head massage a lot.
After the 60 minutes my headache was gone, I was so happy and relaxed.
Jeremy loved his massage as well and both of us said “This was the best massage ever”. We wanted to go there again the next day, but unfortunately we had not enough time. But we will definitely come back next time, when we are visiting Siem Reap.
After the perfect massage we got a coupon for a lovely dessert and drink at the Kaya Café next door.
We could choose one delicious dessert and a fresh pressed juice.
variety of desserts at Kaya Café
The Kaya Café is also a very lovely place with beautiful decoration. Jeremy got a fried dessert and an Orange Juice and I picked the pudding with banana and a passion fruit juice. Everything tasted sooo good, we loved it!
delicious desserts and juice at the Kaya Café
The Senteurs d’Angkor Workshop was great too! A lovely young lady guided us there and explained us everything. They produce natural cosmetics, soaps, scented candles, and incense there. We enjoyed to smell everything and getting the opportunity to look behind the “scenes”, how products were made. I love natural cosmetic and we would try body lotion and other cosmetics there. It is so important to treat your skin and body right.
Soap production at Senteurs D'Angkor Workshop
They offer a huge variety of traditional khmer spices, mixed seasonings like the famous "amok" or "Lok lak" and coffee and tea as well. Most of it comes from local resources. It was very nice, that we could try cinnamon coffee and the different teas!
Different coffee powders and Curry, which is made out of 9 spices
We were lucky to get a 10 % off Coupon, which came with our half day Spa package. There are so many great things in the shop, to take home for ourselfs or as presents for family and friends.
We had an unforgettable day at the Kaya Spa, the Kaya Café and the Senteurs d'Angkor Workshop and we can highly recommend that to everybody!
Enjoy a Spa Day and you feel good and relaxed!
Best Hotel in Phnom Penh: The Green Palace Hotel
Our first destination in Cambodia was the capital Phnom Penh:
We stayed at the Green Palace Hotel in the heart of the city and spend 3 good nights there. We can highly recommend this Hotel if you are planning to visit Phnom Penh!
The staff of the Hotel is so friendly and nice and treat their customers very well. We really loved how walm they welcomed us and we felt right at home.
Our beautiful room was on the 10th floor with an amazing view of Phnom Penh.
Our nice balcony on the 10th floor
We were very happy to have a lovely balcony, where we could sit and relax with a great view.
Sunrise in Phnom Penh
The rooms in the Green Palace Hotel are big and furnished with a comfortable bed, a wardrobe, chairs and a table, a coffee and tea station, a desk and a TV. I liked the modern style combined with cambodian elements a lot. Everything was very clean.
our room in the Green Palace Hotel
very comfortable bed
The Hotel provides house shoes, a bath robe, shampoo, shower gel and complimentary water, which is very nice. We had everything we could wish for our stay in the room. The WIFI worked excellent too.
We enjoyed such a delicious breakfast in the restaurant of the Hotel. They offer a great variety of fresh fruits, cereals, bread and croissants, warm dishes and soup.
breakfast buffet: fruits and cereals
This lovely lady makes the best soups ever
They make fresh soup for their guests for breakfast. We could choose which kind of noodles, vegatables, meat, etc. we want and they cooked such a delicious soup for us. This was the best noodle soup with shrimps I have ever had! We felt always very good after eating a soup for breakfast. This was the perfect start in the day!
best noodle soup with shrimps
nice restaurant in the Green Palace Hotel
The Green Palace Hotel is a 4 Star Hotel with a very nice gmy, a Spa with Sauna and Steam bath and a roof top skybar on the 17th floor. We enjoyed the Steam Bath in the Spa area. This was very relaxing after a long sight seeing day in Phnom Penh. After the steam bath and a nice shower, the staff of the Spa served us a delicious tea.
At the outside of the Hotel TukTuks are waiting for you and offer you a ride. Because they belong to the Hotel, they make really fair prices and you can trust them.
We booked a Green Palace Tuktuk driver for one day. He drove us to the sight seeing spots, which we wanted to see, showed us a great place for lunch and we had really good conversations with him. It was really nice to spend a little time with a local.
We can't wait to come back to this beautiful hotel! Find more information and book here: Green Palace Hotel