Breakfast of vegie fried rice, bean cake and a local tea in a patisserie. Siem Reap was slowly picking ramping up to the morning madness of tourists and sellers heading for Angkor temples, and we joined it too. After seeing a few temples, all magnificent and special in different ways showing the best part of five hundred years of the finest building skills of the Khmer nation, we slowly, but surely got templed out. The heat and the amount of steps you need to take to see the vast expanse of buildings, wears you down. Obviously, on of the most spectacular, is the so called “Indiana Jones” Temple where trees had grown through and on top of the lovely architectural gems. Lots of drink breaks and annoying people trying to sell you whatever for a dollar or two. During one of the breaks, on the banks of the temple water reservoir, something approached us and not looking too closely, we both assumed it was a dog, as you would. It turned out to be a medium sized monkey searching for food and literally scared the life out of us. By about five in the afternoon we headed out of the temples and got Teresa’s bike seat sharp screw chopped off and a full wash of the bikes with drying for a dollar. A quick bite in a street restaurant and a visit to the vast market in the centre of town. I nearly tried chicken crispy feet but got a can of beer instead.
Hotel refresh and we strolled out to get a glimpse of night life and buy the tickets for a speed boat to Phnom Pehn for the next day. The city was mad at night and is definiteley heading to become Bangkok’s twin town of night life soon. Hard to believe how much has changed here since a quiet sleepy village town of 1991. Got back to the hotel around midnight just to see a tourist and a local girl in the reception asking for a room……
Well the good thing is that the world heritage and local authorities are seriously looking after the future of the Angkor Temples. My personal opinion: you just have to come and have a look at it. If you think the pyramids are special then think again. Angkor is so much more impressive than that.
Cycled 47kms
Hotel refresh and we strolled out to get a glimpse of night life and buy the tickets for a speed boat to Phnom Pehn for the next day. The city was mad at night and is definiteley heading to become Bangkok’s twin town of night life soon. Hard to believe how much has changed here since a quiet sleepy village town of 1991. Got back to the hotel around midnight just to see a tourist and a local girl in the reception asking for a room……
Well the good thing is that the world heritage and local authorities are seriously looking after the future of the Angkor Temples. My personal opinion: you just have to come and have a look at it. If you think the pyramids are special then think again. Angkor is so much more impressive than that.
Cycled 47kms