On to Siem Reap and the temples of Angkor. Angkor is an area comprising of several hundred stone temples in an area which is 220 km around. Most of the temples are around 1000 years old. The sheer logistics are unbelievable, not only is each temple made up of hundreds of thousands f stones weighing at least a tonne, but also the surface has been expertly crafted. Each must have taken hundreds of people many years to make. This was always going to be one of the highlights of the trip, and personaly I feel it definitely lived up to the hype. I went for 3 days with Robbie, Tone, Barron, and Gabriel. We had a guide and a tuk tuk for the first day, and then enjoyed exploring many of the less visited temles on bicycles for the following two days. The sheer scale is hard to descibe without photos, but with my camera cable in a bus at the moment, that will have to wait a few days.
Perhaps the funniest moment in siem reap was when I met some close friends of barron and robbies, some argentian girls they had been telling us about. They turned out to be the amazonian women who nearly murdered myself and tiffany when we beat them at table football.
On to the tiny Kratie for the group to once again be complete.
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