So on Thursday we got our plane from Ho Chi Minh to Siem Reap, the plane was only about a third full so we had a spare seat in our row which was nice. Ewen had only just picked up his book to read and already the pilot was telling everyone to prepare for landing, the flight was only about 45 minutes all up I think.
We got our visas no problem and luckily a driver from the hotel was there to pick us up… in a Tuk Tuk, which is a motorbike attached to a trailer with seats on it.
As soon as we checked into our hotel (about 1.30pm) and were shown our room I went to sleep for about 5 hours while Ewen went and had some lunch at the hotel restaurant and talked to some fellow travelers, one a man who has been staying here for 2 months so far!
Ewen woke me up at about 6.30 to have some dinner, we ate and then I pretty much went straight back to sleep.
In the morning we had booked a Tuk Tuk to take us to some temples at 8am so it was another early start. We could not believe how hot it was (I forgot to mention earlier, stepping off the plane onto the tarmac was like walking into a furnace, it is so much hotter here than in Vietnam) for only 8 in the morning! It was nice to be in the Tuk Tuk though and feel the breeze rush past us.
Ewen will probably give in depth accounts on all of the temples so I’ll leave that up to him, we spent 5 and a half hours seeing 5 different temples that first day of sightseeing and while they were all beautiful and incredible and unimaginable that they were all put their without the use of machinery I had had enough by 1.30pm when we got back to the hotel and after a quick lunch I went and had a nap still feeling pretty sick.
That night we got a Tuk Tuk into town to go to Pub Street which is the tourist area filled with restaurants and shops. We had a really nice dinner that we cooked ourselves at the table which was interesting! Then we went for a walk through the night market but I started to feel sick (I’m ruining Ewen’s holiday) so we came back to the hotel deciding we’d do a proper look through of the market the next night.
Today we got up at 4am!!!! that’s right, that is not a type! 4 in the morning!!! Our Tuk Tuk picked us up at 5am so we could see the sunrise over Angkor Wat, as we drove along in the dark we started to think maybe it’s a joke that people tell you to do this, maybe we would get there, the gates would be shut and guards would laugh and tell you to come back later but when we pulled up hundreds of people were already there including full tour groups on buses!
Crazy people!
But the sunrise was beautiful and after a while of fiddling with the settings on the camera we took some half decent photos. We stayed there for just over an hour then our Tuk Tuk took us to five more temples over the next 3 hours. We had had enough by then, 11 temples over 9 hours and 2 days was our limit so we got dropped off at the hotel and went back to bed. Poor Ewen is sick now too although he handles it a lot better than I do, he still managed to bound up the temple steps while I plodded along behind him.
It’s only 1pm here but feels like about 6pm I think it will be an early night for us tonight!
4 comments:
Not good still being sick. Must be sheer determination keeping u going in the heat & cramming so much in. Pretty spectacular place, any docs you could see & get checked out? xxx
I cant believe its so much hotter than Vietnam you are doing a great job getting around sightseeing in the heat. Hope Ewen doesnt get as sick as you have been. Sounds like you both need a holiday from the holiday.
just checked weather in egypt 30 to 33 for next 5 days and then turkey is around 18 to 20 each day sounds much better for travelling etc.
Hey Pete, hope you and Ewen are feeling better, you are having such a good time. 9 temples jeez even Ewen must be all templed out!
Get better and keep on trekking across the galaxy.
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