Sunday, 19 December 2010

Second day at Angkor Wat and other sites

After a chilled out day yesterday I asked my tuk tuk driver to pick me up at 7.45 this morning. I have a 3 day pass and tomorrow I will do a completely different circuit.  Today I wanted to revisit my favourite sites and see them in a different light at different times.
Quite honestly you could go every day for a year and never get bored, the more you look the more you see i.e the intricate carvings on almost every stone and wall, some of which are so high but still they bothered.
More facts on Angkor Wat, the moat all around it is the length of 2 football pitches and it is a further 4 lengths walk up to the main entrance.
Now, I am not into football as most of you will know, but I appreciate that is a long way, especially as I have now walked it twice.I will put some photos on as seem to have taken loads - Mum, I know you said try not to, but I just couln't help it...
I climbed as far as you could inside one of the towers and the view from the top was wonderful
Hello from Angkor Wat Temple
This again taken from the tower, gives an idea of how it is set in dense forest

Ta Prom It is simply amazing to see

 The next 4 pics were within the Temples, the children appeared to be alone, none of them knew I was taking their photo

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These 2 children were with their Mum



This spider and its web were about 10ft from the ground, both were very large
Sorry to hear of the weather you are having back home, it's lovely here, I will need to buy some more suntan lotion before long.
I am just off to the night market to chat with the ''you lie buy laidee" men and women
I have already succumbed several times so already have next years Xmas presents sorted - if you like 3 bracelets for $1 that is x

1 comment:

  1. Wow, Angkor Wat looks unbelievable!! So beautiful, and the setting is amazing in the forest. Cant quite get my head around how big it is and how they ended up building it all, really fab.
    You look lovely and brown (or is it that you haven't washed for a while, you grubby travelling type)!!
    xx

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