Angkor Day 2

Okay so I'm pretty much caught up with this day two post from Angkor. We are now in Laos so internet may be a little spotty sometimes but I'll do my best to stay up to date. We were told it wouldn't work to leave Cambodia on our Canadian passport and enter Laos on our British one. We need to do some research of our own to confirm this because we were told this by a young Cambodian guy who was taking care of our bus load of visas. It did cost us an extra $11 each... boooo. We are now in Don Det a little island on the Mekong. We're going to relax here for a few days because I'm tired of crappy bus rides :P

Nov 21 – Angkor Day 2

This morning, thankfully, had a later start to it with the tuk tuk picking us up around 9am. Our first temple was Preah Khan and our guides favourite temple. To get there we had to get through the chaos of Angkor Thom. Man am I glad we were there much earlier yesterday, it was packed with people. Preah Khan was lovely, definitely one of my favourites too. Our next stop was Preah Neak Pean which was an island temple. There was a long board walk over the water to reach it and no railings. You couldn't go too close to this temple since it was surrounded by water, makes me wonder if it was always this submerged. Our next stop was Ta Som, it had an awesome tree growing over an entrance in such away that the roots formed a second archway. Eastern Mebon was next, it had some great almost fully intact elephant statues at each corner on each level. It was also pretty impressive once you climbed to the top. After that came Pre Rup, there were a bunch of people trying to sell shirts and paintings on the walk up this one. Beau smushed himself into a corner to get this amazing shot of Pre Rup. At Sras Srand, our next temple, there was a huge set of stairs to climb. I had to catch my breath in the shade after reaching the top. It was hot out. We were starting to get templed out but we only had one stop left, Prasat Kravan. There was some construction to hop over to enter the temple site, looked like they were working on drainage. There were some great carvings in this temple and of course some amazing trees. After finishing with the temples we asked our tuk tuk driver to drop us off at the market so we could grab some lunch. After lunch we headed back to the hotel to beat the heat and have a shower. Just down from our hotel there was a local restaurant roasting a whole pig. We've seen this every night and Beau really wanted to try it so we ate dinner there. It was really delicious. We then went to find a bar with happy hour to have another beer before bed. Tomorrow we are off to Kratie and will be on the bus all day... Yuck. 

Preah Khan

Preah Khan

Preah Neak Pean

Ta Som

Eastern Mebon

Beau's awesome pic of Pre Rup

Sras Srang

Prasat Kravan