rebeccaswayround: Siem Reap

hello everyone! we are now back in Bangkok and have met up with Mark and Ricky. We had quite a long stressful 11hr journey here from Siem Reap, they made us wait around pointlessly for ages over and over again and then shoved us on a bus with useless air con for 4 hours..it was so so hot! First day here and we got soaked through to the bone by a storm, as much as i prefer the temperature like this i really hope it doesnt follow us to the islands.

Here are some pictures from our time in Siem Reap, there are so many i just couldnt be selective! sorry if you dont like pictures of ruins..haha.

When asked what the strangest thing we'd eaten was we were ashamed to admit the unidentified meats on the market was as far as we'd gone..so we decided to try the Cambodian BBQ. We had a mixture of meats, the usual chicken and beef but also some crocodile, snake and squid! We both managed to eat everything, the crocodile was lovely - i'd definately eat it again..the snake was ok but i wasnt that keen! We had to cook it all ourselves too...

The chicken on our bbq with all the veggies in the "moat"...i really want one of these! :)

The squid tentacles that i couldnt bring myself to eat but Liz managed fine!

We bought some local fruit to try (i forgot to photograph the other ones we've tried along the way). We found out that this is the fruit from a lotus, we had to break it to get the fruit out and then pop them out of their skins. Kind of tasted like bland fresh peas, not amazing but pretty inoffensive.

"Bayon" at Angkor Wat

The Elephant Terrace

Me and some random ruins

An interesting temple that had been restored, very weird to see the old worn stones next to the new bright and sharp ones..very much a contradiction!

One of the many temples we didnt quite make it to the top of...too hot for too much climbing!

My favourite..Ta Phrom, I absolutely loved this temple and was so excited to go. The beautiful trees growing up through the buildings, even on top of them, were such a reminder of the fight between nature and man.

The huge stones look like they were pushed aside with so little effort!

Me and a monkey outside Angkor..admittedly i could've got closer but he looked a bit cheeky and i've heard stories that some are trained to pickpocket!!

Carvings inside Angkor

Angkor Vat at sunrise. We had to get up at 4am..ugh..
I'm not sure if this is right but i think Angkor Wat is the name for the whole area and Angkor Vat for this main temple. Please correct me if i'm wrong!