Angkor Wat

The photos speak for themselves here, this is a massive amazing place, we got a three day pass which we used over the week. We hired bikes and cruised around taking our time and exploring all the different temples. These were built around 800 years ago, very impressive especially when you see the Cambodia of today. The carvings (bas relief they are called) are incredible. Every wall seems to be covered in scenes of everyday life, as it was then or battles or war. Very intricate and all different. I loved them. Ta Prohm with all the enormous old trees growing through everything was our favourite. On our spare days we visited the floating village, the lanmine museum, biked to the lake and got caught out in monsoon rain more than once. The owners son of our hotel turned 4 the day before we left so they had a birthday party for him at the hotel and invited all the hotel guests as well. (9 of us) so we had a fun last night, there was lots of food and plenty of angkor beer flowing. Balloons and streamers and sparklers, quite an interesting experience. Good bye Cambodia, we will especially remember the all day tuk tuk drivers, the manicure and pedicure I got in the middle of the market, the (most funny) massage organised for us by our hotel and of course the all day everyday scams... We left yesterday at 7.30 am and arrived in Bangkok about 6.30 pm. It only cost $11 each. Bus  Transport  has been really cheap in all the countries. Well time to go see some of Bangkok! Trevor still hates big cities so he is doing admirably, we are really just here as we are flying to Seoul tomorrow night. But maybe a spot of shopping today...