Breakfast was free from the hotel...it was fine...they had noodles, rice, stirfry (yes...for breakfast) and the they also had fried eggs, french toast, tea, coffee...that sort of thing. I had an amalgamation of both kinds of breakfast (OH DRAGON FRUIT) and we left the hotel around 10 to head to the Center for Khmer Studies.
The Center for Khmer Studies is a school with beautiful grounds. They have schools for all ages and a lovely library. We got to see part of the library (including the Children's library, where we got to meet Liny!) And then we headed over to the Angkor Temples.
First on our list was Angkor Wat. It was beautiful and enormous. Prakcchim, our tuk tuk driver for the day, took us all over. Aside from taking in all the relif scultpure and traipsing over these amazingly old temples (from early 1100s), we enjoyed seeing monkeys and (get this) pigs! We climed up very steep stairs (some old / some new) and RM took pictures of all the graffiti, which was a mix of old and new.
We had lunch at a place right near the temples that caters to tourists and then we headed to our 3nd temple of the day, Bayon. Bayon is much more dilapatated than Angkor Wat. We did more climbing here and had a good time walking through the labyrinth that is the inside.
We were excited to climb Bakheng mountain to see the sunset, but it was very very crowded. We are hoping to have a smaller crowd for sunrise tomorrow.
We came home, got cleaned up, discovered that my camera is a traitor, and then Prakcchim came back to get us and we attended the first night of the Cambodian Photography Festival. That was pretty great and we got to see photographs from all over the world.
We ate dinner at a local place that Prakcchim took us to and enjoyed watching a cheesy horor film that we thought was Chineese.
Very tired girl signing off...sorry there isn't more time, but I have to sleep for sunrise tomorrow.
Night!
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