The Temples of Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia

We were picked up at 8 by our smiley tuk tuk driver, Gram, and off we went. He didn’t speak very much, just stopped at certain temples and told us where to meet him afterwards.

We stopped at quite a few impressive temples on the way to the main event. We bougth a book from some dude to explain whereabouts we were.
The stonework was very impressive and there were stone carvings and engravings of celestial nymphs and various gods (see pics).

We saw the centre town of the city of Angkor which was very cool, a long walkway covered in fantastic stonecarvings of elephants, apsaras and warriors called 'The Terrace of Elephants'.
We also saw the Terrace of Lepers and a place called Bayon. Bayon had huge big carved statues of heads. There is apparently 37 big statues and 216 pairs of eyes that look down at you from this structure.

After a delicious lunch – Jim had coconut juice straight from the coconut, finally we were brought to Angkor Wat, saving the best for last I reckon. It was very cool. It had lots of very steep steps all the way up to the top of the building that we clambered up for a brilliant view. It was amazing.

The day was roasting hot. We must have bought about 5 litres of water. It was an expensive enough day out as the passes themselves were 20 bucks a piece. We had decided not to get the three day passes as we didn’t really think we’d be up for three days of temple viewing. We were right. One full day is enough unless you’re a big temple buff.

We went for a few well-deserved deliciously cold beers afterwards.

The next day was pretty uneventful - Lazed aboot in bed til lunchtime. Had a spiffing tuna sandwich for lunch, then hotfooted it to the Nokia store to price some phones. They were all too dear so we roastingfooted it back to base camp to do some internetting.

Packed our bags ready for the off tomorrow to Phnom Penh. Woohoo

(Woohoo??? - what was I thinking) (< added later)