Siem Reap (23rd and 24th October)

Left Phnom Penh at 07:00 on the 23rd using a small bus to main Bus Station then transferring all our baggages to the larger inter inter city bus.

Saw lots of flooding on the road to Siem Reap, but nothing to stop us.

Siem Reap exists to serve the tourist market for the temples at Angkor Wat and seems very quite in the day, however at night it comes alive with a large night market and all sorts of shops, restaurants and massage parlours suddenly jumping into life.

On the Monday most of us went to see the Anghor Wat temple site (I went with Peggy and John in a tuk tuk). We didn’t set off until 08:00, so missed the sunrise, and we didn;t return to the hotel until after 16:00. We managed to see 4 temples and have a lunch during the day in this vast amazing complex.

Some of the Temples are still used, while others have not been restored and still have the forest climbing out of them.  

The photos cannot do the site justice. Some women were collecting some vegetation which was growing on the roof of one complex and this is used in cooking. (Photos in the album)