Siem Reap is a must for anyone travelling south-east Asia just to see the Angkor temples. There is a really pathetic and un-looked after crocodile farm, but you have to catch the feeding as its only once a week. Orrrrr you could buy a live duck for 6 bucks and feed em yourself! Hands up for those who thinks we did it? Not I says me. Quack, quack, quack, SNAP! onedeadduck.com
Angkor Wat is single most treasured construction in the whole of Cambodia. Everything is named after it in some way or another - the beer, cigarettes, hotels, roads and so on. It is known as the Khymer pride built in 1112 -1152 by King Suryavarman 2, and it really is quite incredible. We made the effort of waking up at 5am, and cycling the 15km from Siem Reap so that we could watch the sunrise. Everyone had recommended that we be there for it. The Angkor Temples are spread out over a grand distance (not sure of the exact). So it was best to cycle between all the different areas. After a quick walk, climb and scramble around the temple we moved onto Angkor Thom and the Bayon, which was erected in 1181 -1219 by King Jayavarman the 7th. The Bayon has 54 towers with a total of 216 huge faces carved into them. They are supposed be the likeliness of the king. After we went to see the elephant terrace and the leper king terrace, where we took the time to find out a hidden carving of a nine headed horse creature in one of the exposed rooms.
The day we went to the temples was probably our hottest yet, easily in the 40's. And with all the cycling, lack of food and water, Abbie started to feel a little badly, so she headed back. Me and Maj cycled the full distance of the Angkors and as we were on our way back who might we pass but Abbie! Who had stupidly gone the wrong way, she is from Essex after all. By this point she was completely worn out so Maj gave her a backky (thats backky John not backin) and I cycled hers and my bikes back. Good job the northerners were there to pick up the weak southerner.
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