SIEM REAP/ANGKOR WAT (CAMBODIA)

We kept Siem Reap/Angkor Wat as the highlight to the very end and it was worth it. We spend the first day visiting a silk farm and spend the rest of the day in the market shopping. It’s so much fun to haggle.

Next day we got up at 4am, took our bicycles and see the sunrise at Angkor Wat. We set ourselves an itinery and after seeing 3 temples we were pretty tired and had enough till we entered Bayon. It’s a breathtaking architecture and by then our favourite. We watched locals feeding the monkeys and nearly missed the sunset at Phnom Bakheng.

We hired a tuk tuk for the second day as Banteay Srei and Roluos Temple group are much further away from Angkor Wat. We saw some fantastic sandstone carvings and also the first temples in the area. At the very end we went to see Angkor Wat. It’s huge and very different inside than we expected. It even reminded us on Roman architecture with the inside baths and monastery look.

As it was our last day/night in Cambodia we decided to buy some of those $5 vodka red bull pitchers. Who would have thought that we are still drinking 4am in the morning having to catch a bus at 7am? How we managed is magical with not even losing a single item while packing. We were even still buzzing while heading towards the boarder in the taxi.

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