Lara Dunston

Author's details

Name: Lara Dunston
Date registered: December 30, 2009
URL: http://cooltravelguide.com

Latest posts

Staying Connected in Australia — May 1, 2012
Theatre of Ideas at Melbourne Food and Wine Festival — April 30, 2012
A Local Guide to Vintage Shopping in Melbourne — April 29, 2012
Discovering Melbourne’s Hidden Secrets on a Lanes and Arcades Tour — April 29, 2012
Meandering the Masala Trail in Dandenong in Melbourne — April 28, 2012

Author's posts listings

Dec
20

Siem Reap’s Best Cafes and Bars

by Lara Dunston

Siem Reap, like Phnom Penh, boasts plenty of cool cafés and bars, whether it’s for a coffee and pastry to kickstart the day, a cold beer to quench the thirst, or a heady cocktail to sip after the sun goes down. There are so many options – these are just our favourites, below – that …

Categories: Bars and Entertainment, Eating Out, Food and Wine

Dec
19

Eric Raisina’s Guide to Siem Reap Style

by Lara Dunston

We met Madagascar-born fashion designer Eric Raisina at his atelier in Siem Reap when researching shopping in the city. The Paris-trained designer, who has worked for Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent, makes some of the most enchanting clothes that I’ve ever seen. He’s also something of a celebrity in Siem Reap, a city he …

Categories: Local Knowledge, Take-Homes, Under the Skin

Dec
18

Shopping the Gorgeous Stores of Siem Reap – An Itinerary

by Lara Dunston

Tendence Khmere. Shopping in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

For most travellers, Siem Reap has been little more than a departure point for exploring Angkor Wat and the other Angkor temples. Yet it hasn’t always been that way. Until the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, Siem Reap had been something of a celebrity hot spot. Its heyday was the 1960s, when King Sihanouk …

Categories: Local Produce, Local Products, Take-Homes

Dec
17

A Guide to Experiencing Angkor Wat and the Angkor Temples

by Lara Dunston

Guide to experiencing Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Cambodia’s Angkor temples are spellbinding. This sprawling collection of archaeological wonders, stretching some 400 square kilometres and including the Angkor Archaeological Park at Siem Reap, home to Angkor Wat, consists of some of the world’s most captivating and atmospheric ruins. Some stand majestically, like Angkor Wat and Bayon, just begging to be explored, others are buried …

Categories: Trip Essentials

Dec
16

Exploring Angkor Wat and the Angkor Temples of Siem Reap

by Lara Dunston

Angkor Wat and the other temples of Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Enchanting Angkor Wat and the other Angkor temple complexes of the Khmer Empire are the reason most travellers visit Siem Reap. Although the fact the Cambodian city came in at #7 on Travel and Leisure magazine’s 2011 World’s Best Cities list, ahead of Sydney, Barcelona and Paris, suggests visitors are enjoying more than the archaeological …

Categories: Taking a Tour, Trip Essentials