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Cambodge - Angkor

de Lynette, 26-06-2005

What? The Angkor Wat?

After the initial "OH MY GOD, what do we do now" we looked desperately at the police who were protecting us from getting swamped by these taxi drivers so desperate to take us somewhere. We tried several tactics:

1) hijack a policeman to come with us- they weren't up for that!
2) run away from them- they soon swarmed around waving their cards stating (ironically) they didn't mean to bother us!
3) run around the outside of the bus- the swarmed at us once more

Finally clement spotted a sign saying 100 riel (which is nothing) and so he said "yes you" and with that they disappeared and everything went very calm. Why didn't someone tell us this before getting off the bus? Anyway we ended up not paying him because we didn't go to the guest house he was commisioned to take us to: he didn't have much luck getting us as cutomers, so that was the end of that!

Siem Reap had its share of homeless people, there were limbless people begging on the streets. But aside from that it was quite a nice place if a little too touristic- posh bars for the 2 week holidayers gave us a good indication that it was a well visited town due to its close proximity to Angkor Wat.

We decided to hire bikes to visit the vast areas around Angkor and it was a quarter of the price of a Tuk Tuk tour- we left that for the last day were it required a good hours drive.

The main Angkor Wat is pretty imense and impressive with carvings on every wall like our modern day wall paper. There is not one pillar or lintel that is not carved upon and so there is a lot to see- the carvings tell stories of the Kings of the time.

The monkeys on the side of the road were an added bonus and we watched as locals gave them fruit to eat, they were very cute and although not tame very relaxed around humans.

Other temples that are dotted around a 40 km square area are also impressive and we wanted to see as many as we could in the 3 days we had. I must admit by the third day they all started to look very similar and we were spending less and less time looking at them. I had had enough by the end and was pleased to be on our way back to the guest house.

On the fifth day we decided to go to Phnom Penh where we were to learn about the terrible Kymer Rouge regime and the devistation the Cambodian people endured...

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