Arrive Siem Reap, Missed first Tuk-Tuk due to excessive form filling at arrivals. Arrive "Shadow of Angkor" Settle in then lunch with beers at 10:00 - can't remember when we last ate. Brave the noonday sun to potter around town where everyone wants to sell you something - this gets tedious after 20mins. Dinner at Shadow, early night in order to be refreshed for tomorrow's cycling round temples.
Bikes duly arrive, few adjustments then off to get temple passes. These are cool as you get your mugshot on them but a bit steep at $20/day although it includes free entry to toilets ("relief" for Amanda as en-route is promptly but uncharacteristically sick) pictured outside the Taphrum temple looking a bit peaky and not like Angelina Jolie at all. Temples amazing but a few too many people for my liking, mostly Korean and Japanese. Sad to see temples in decline due to war and changes in the kings religion although I'm not sure they should be spending the money to recreate parts in new stone.
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ReplyDeleteAmanda, did you forget to take water with it? Hope you're feeling better now x
ReplyDeleteNice hotel guys, looks good value too xx