Home Sweet Home (part 2)

I thought I would share a few more pictures from our house hunting experience.  These are places that we decided not to rent but may consider something along these lines if we choose to make Siem Reap our home for more than a year.  Keep in mind that all these places rent for about the same price and many of them are partially furnished.  All houses have a locked gate and fence that surround the property and all the apartments that we looked at have a pool and exercise room.

House #1 - 5 bedrooms, 6 baths

A bathroom in house #1.  This tub is huge and not the norm for bathrooms in Siem Reap...this is very western!

House #1 second floor balcony off the master bedroom.

House #2 - 5 bedrooms, 6 baths

Bathroom in house #2.  This is a more typical bathroom.  Note the shower head in the middle of the wall on the right side of the picture.  When you shower, you just stand in the middle of the bathroom and clean up.  When you finish, you spray down the entire bathroom, leaving you and the bathroom sparkling clean.  No shower curtain needed.  The bathrooms in our apartment are more of this style but don't worry, if you visit, we've put up a shower curtain.  :)

Apartment #1 with a beautiful pool in the center of the complex.  A few of the teachers that I work with are living in the complex.

House #3 - 4 bedrooms, 3 baths.  This house also had a huge yard but would need a lot of work to maintain it.  There was a garden and tons of mango and coconut trees on the property.

One of the coconut trees in the back yard.

House #4 - 4 bedrooms, 3 baths.  This house may not look as nice as some of the others but was a favorite among those of us looking for houses.  One of the teachers that I work with is renting this amazing little gem.

The kitchen in house #4.  This is one of the largest kitchen we saw in any of the houses with a full size frig and tons of cabinets.  There's even a smaller kitchen located right off this main kitchen which would have been perfect for my husband to brew beer and indulge in any other culinary experiences he wished to pursue.

Apartment #2 - several in this building but located right next to the river.  With annual flooding, no one was really interested in this building.

The only cool thing about apartment #2 was the roof top pool....

and the amazing views!