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Wednesday, 5 December 2007

The Temples of Angkor

We travelled to Siem Riep in the morning and arrived at our guesthouse along with ze Germans. We would all be touring the Wat together. Now you ask Wat i am talking about. This is my latest attempt at cheap humour as I neve meant 'what' only that a 'Wat' is a temple in Cambodia/Thailand etc.

We took a trip up to the temples, Wat temple you ask? Well i do not know - there are so many (you see what i did there) . Spent sunset on the first evening on top of one trying to get a decent pic for the millions of tourists, everone with a camera fancier thatn the next. I tell you cameras are bragging rights theses days, its so ridiculous, most people do not even know how to use any of the features, nevermind the manual focus...

Oh yes. That evening i say a horrific bike accident in which a bike with 2 passengers sans helmets hit a car head on. It was horrific, i had to stop and help as everyone was just driving by, i will not go into details, but needless to say i will bot be hiring a bike in Cambodia.

The following day we tried our best to do all the majot temples in Angkor in a day. Many said it could not be done, but after spending 2 weeks in Egypt looking at them, don't aske me what any are called, this is the only way i would want to do it.

The day was great and we saw just enough for me to remember what they are all called.. bonus! I really did like Ta Prohm where they filmed Tomb Raider. This temple has roots growing all over the walls, but not mini ones, big ass roots. Its fairly magical to see and makes you realise how old these structures are.
Picture of team Angkor at Ta Prohm. From left to right. Heindrick, Isabella, Dieter, Celia, Sonia, Marco

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