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Angkor Wat

So this is kinda like the last post where there wont be very many photos in it, but not because I didnt take any! cause I took way too many to choose any good ones. so here is the link to the photo album and please go browse them at you leisure because there isnt really any specifics that I want to talk about.

The photos in the slide show below are from all of Siem Reap not just the temples so you might have to skip ahead a bit.



I decided to get the pass for 3 days which is good for a whole week (you have to ask for it) to see the temples of Angkor.
I got a tuk-tuk driver who drove me to my hostel from the bus stop's card so my friend and I called him up and he said that we would pick us up the next morning to go see the sunrise. So we got up at 5 and went outside to meet him. He ended up not being there but his friend was there to take us. He was also a great guy and we paid $12 for him to take us around the whole day and drinking water was included!

We got to Angkor Wat while it was still dark and we navigated our way to a building to watch the sun rise. As it started getting light we noticed that the whole sky was cloudy and we didnt think that there was going to be a sun rise at all. So my friend and I got a head start as soon as we could see where we were walking and got to see all of Angkor Wat before all the crowds came.

From there we were ahead of the pack! so the rest of the day we got to see most of the temples in relative quiet.

There isnt much description I can give for them because I saw so many over the 3 days. Most of them were pretty much the same, had different stories behind them which I knew from the "Ancient Angkor" guide book I bought. The whole thing would have been a whole less interesting without it because every temple I saw it gave a little description of which way to walk and what to look at.
You will see many kids offering the same book for $1. Then you discover that it is $1 to look only and you dont get to keep it. I ended up buying it from young couple with a stand for $10 and they threw in this bamboo thing that made a twangy sound thing which was good fun for about 5 min.
At one of the temples the security officer who checks the ticket asked how much I paid for my book and I said $10. He said his was only $1 and I should have come to him.  I replied yeah but I get to keep mine not just look at it. Him and his friend laughed "oh he knows!" so apparently this is some big joke that they all have going.

Some temples, especially the ones further out,were pretty cool. Had some interesting little things to notice. I think that 3 days was a good amount of time to spend there. You can buy a 1 week pass but i cant imaging what you could possibly be looking at the whole 7 days because I was done with about half the day left for all 3 days.

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