Angkor What?

Haha, nice pun on the subject line, eh? Hehehe. There's actually a small pub in Siem Reap that named "Angkor What?"

We got up about 4:30, met the motorcycle taxi's outside and took off about 5:30.

Stopped on route to get our 1 day pass ($20US), then they took us to Angkor Wat for the sunrise, then to Angkor Thom (which consists of many different temples), then another onem, dunno the name, and finally Ta Prohm, the jungle temple.

Angkor Wat quite impressive. We watched the sunride over it. Angkor Wat is a huge compound, and the temple climb is quite high.

Angkor Thom is actually a walled area with lots of temples inside it.

Third was the unnamed one (because I can't remember the name). This was cool, it has 64 towers, each tower has 4 faces of Buddha, one facing each direction. Quite cool.

Last was the Jungle Temple, or Ta Prohm. This was the most impressive. Set in a jungle, the trees are growing in and around the walls and statues of the temples, it was quite cool.

There are many, many more temples, but these are the main ones. They are all in various states of repair and disrepair, some nothing more than huge rocks strewn all over, others being reconstructed (usually with foreign aid...money).

We got back to the guest house abut 11:00AM, and slept for a few hours. Had lunch about 2:00, then walked into town to book a ticket to Thailand. Leave tomorrow at 7:00AM.

Our guides were going to take us back out to the temples at 4:00 to see the sunset, but we decided 4:00 was too early, so we went at 5:00 instead. We didn't even really get to see the sunset, they started kicking everybody out at 6:00, and the sky was kind of cloudy in the west anyway.

I'm not feeling well today. I had the runs last evening, and had stomach pains all night long, and it's continuing today. Jaz had the same problems in Phnom Penh, maybe I got what he got. It's not fun, though.