Angkor What?

For some random reason Blogger isn't allowing me to add a title to this post - maybe they've read my previous attempts and voted to block me! But anyway, moving on...

Timmy is Tomb Raider (without the boobs).

I'm now in Siem Reap in northwest Cambodia, home to the famous temples of Angkor. I did go down to Sihanoukville on Friday but the weather was worse than disgusting, beaches in monsoon season don't work, so lets just skip that part. I headed back to Phnom Penh on Sunday morning and managed to get straight on another bus out here.

This morning I headed out just before 5am to catch the sunrise at Angkor Wat. The overcast weather dismissed any chances of a spectacular sunrise, but the temples more than made up for that. They are amazing. Angkor Wat is the biggest and most famous, supposedly the biggest religious site in the world, but its not the only attraction. Angkor Thom is another whole ancient city nearby, at its height it was home to a million people (at the time London only had 50,000!) And other awesome temples are also scattered elsewhere throughout the area, some 50km or more away. The stone carvings in some of them are spectacular.

Angkor Wat a moment before sunrise.

Today I went flat out from before sunrise to after sunset and I've still hardly made a dent. I'm not going to even try. Tomorrow I'll hire a bicycle and do things at a more sedate pace. I'll try to add some more photos after that if this connection speeds up.

In case I don't get back on to the internet soon I thought I might add my plans for the next leg. On Wednesday I head back east as far as Kampong Cham, from there I'm aiming to head north via Kratie and Stung Treng to the Laos border. Its an unofficial border crossing so who knows what'll happen. I'm also not even sure if there's any transport available on that side. So if you don't hear from me for a while I'm stuck somewhere in southern Laos. Get a map.