The Jungle Temple and a Sunset – By Leigh

Now its on to what turned out to be Anna’s favourite temple, in the jungle.  I think the pictures speak for themselves for this temple…

Next up was a date with the sunset at another temple.  The oldest one here apparently.  On the way up we purchased some beer, for 1 dollar a can of course.

Anna and I perched higher than the rest of the group to watch the sunset!:

A fake policeman trying to sell us stuff and pictures with him!:

 

I have never seen the sun rise and set on the same day before this. But what an amazing day to do it.

Time for dinner,  We split from the group and do our own thing for once as we have a free evening, this makes a nice change!  Zak and Renee are also going for a meal, Bouna and Julian are going out to paint the town red!

We settle on a nice western restaurant located on Pub Street in Siam Reap.  Quite safe and touristy, we are very comfortable here and order some ‘Snow White’ cocktails and pizza.

We’d seen this earlier and had planned to do it…

It’s called the Fish Doctor Foot Massage!!!

We bumped into Zak and Renee there also!

It’s a really weird sensation!  Kind of like having pins and needles or lots of little electric shocks.  The back tank was far more intense than the front, the fish in the back were hungry little suckers!  I could only keep my feet in for so long before the feeling became too intense and lifted out, then they all concentrated onto Anna!

The relaxing front tank:

Versus the intense back tank!:

We paid or 3 dollars each for the Fish Doctor Foot Massage and went for a wander around the night market.  Anna brought a really nice dress for $6.  After some hard bartering down from $12!

We grabbed a 2 dollar Tuk Tuk back to the hotel to bring this unforgettable day of a lifetime to an end.

My feet feel strangely clean after a long day spent walking around temples!  Poor fish…

Angkor Thom – By Leigh

The Entrance to Angkor Thom temple group is a couple of Kilometres directly north of Angkor Watt:

We were allowed to climb to the top of this ‘bigger than it looks in the photo’ temple, great fun!:

It was easy to go up to the top…

Us at the top.  Apparently this is where the kings used to have ‘sexy times’ with their wife!:

Climbing up was easy, getting down was bloody scary!  I thought Anna might cry.  LOL.

I'm just too cool sometimes:

For the next bit I thought I might cry:

I went for the tried and tested ‘on my ass’ technique:

Phew we both made it down safely!

The next temple had a sleeping Buddha on its side:

Next up was my favourite temple of them all ‘Bayon’…

I didn’t get the classic nose to nose shot quite 100%, still a good picture though!

 

I think these faces are fantastic!  So full of character, there are 58 of them on the temple.

It is now approaching midday and we all decide to go back to the hotel for a bit, with a view to return later for another of the must see temples and  a sunset over another!  We have been up since 4am after all. 

On the way home in the bus we spot some wild monkeys.  So we pull over to take some photos.

   After taking some photos of this one I turn around to see this!

Anna has a new friend!

And some nits it seems!

Anna’s new wild friend had to be carefully removed by our driver, as these monkeys can sometimes ‘be violent’!

What an amazing morning we have had.  We make it back to hotel without any other major dramas and both take a little siesta to get our batteries recharged for the rest of the day.