I spent three days going to visit some of the many temples in the area. The place was quite spectacular. In my mind, a candidate for the Eighth Wonder of the World. Despite a long and tiring three days travelling from temple to temple on a moto, where it was either soaring under the bright blue skies or torrential monsoon rains, it was well worth it, even though I was constantly hounded by beggars and touts trying to sell you anything by any means possible. There were often many very steep steps to climb too, which was fairly scary, especially in the pouring rain. I took hundreds of pics, but here are a few of my favourite temples:
Angkor Wat, the largest and most famous of the temples at Angkor

The spectacular Bayon, which resides in Angkor Thom


Ta Prohm, spooky and also used as a location for the film Tomb Raider

The much smaller, but very impressive Pre Rup temple

The amazing Preah Khan temple

One of many spectacular gates to the temples

Banteay Srei, a little further out, but well worth the visit


Amazing carvings at Banteay Srei


Me at Angkor

It was very wet on day two and three

Bakong, one of the three temples at Roluos

Siem Reap was the largest city I had been to for quite some time and I made the most of it. Dead Fish restaurant was a really cool venue with live music and crocs!

I went out most of the five nights I spent in Siem Reap (yes, five nights), always starting at Angkor What bar. I met lots of people here too, some I had met on my travels in Laos, but also an Intrepid group. We ended up going to Zone One, the only nightclub in town and full of dodgy locals. X Bar was the only other place to go out late and despite being fairly dull, I did manage to stay there until 5am on two occasions.
Despite being a fantastic, must-see place in Cambodia and arguably the world, I was very disappointed by the people. Many were impolite at best, sometimes down right rude. Yes, there the high levels of poverty in Cambodia was very evident, but I found that difficult to excuse the behavious of most hawkers, kids, hotel staff etc. Also, despite being a poor country, I didn't feel the Cambodians necessarily were particularly hard-working, often seeing many of them mulling around on sidewalks playing cards, drinking or on mobile phones.

I left with my tube to head to the beach in Sihanoukville.
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