Angkor Wat and the other temples in the vicinity really have lived up to the hype. They are quite amazing- enormous and seemingly out of place in the middle of the jungle. I have spent four days in Siem Reap, the town close to Angkor Wat. I bused here from Bangkok, which took most of a day. Siem Reap was suffering from quite bad flooding when I arrived. When the tuk-tuk driver told me that he might have trouble getting to the hostel because of flooding I did not believe him, thinking it was one more scam. But he was right. It took two days for the water to recede. For the first two days of my visit I only visited the temples. Getting to and from the hostel required walking through some very murky water so I did not venture into town in the evening. This is the a view from the hostel a day after I arrived... and then two days later.
I hired a tuk-tuk and driver for two and a half days to take me to the many temples around Angkor Wat. Visiting every temple is an interesting experience as you are assailed by adults and children selling water, books, bracelets, cloth and postcards- "For you only one dollaaaar", "You only buy from me", "You buy when you come back, ok". The Cambodian people were very friendly though. It would have been nice to be able to buy something from everyone.
A couple of photos. Sorry, no captions, as I am running short of time.
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