Angkor W(h)at?!

Mandy:

We woke up at an astonishing 4am (or 4:45am for norm -_-) to catch the sunrise at Angkor Wat. We met our Tuk Tuk driver in pitch dark. Luckily our phones have a flashlight app and our driver spoke good English! We discussed our plan for the day and off we went into the darkness! When we got to the Angkor Archaeological Park gates, there was already a line up. There were hundreds of people (mostly Asian) surrounding Angkor Wat for the perfect picture. We waited a good two hours until the sun came up and the people started to trickle off so that I could go to the front for a good picture. I probably took 50 pictures =P

Our passes

Hundreds of people snapping pictures

Fave photo

After the sunrise it was time to actually explore the temples. Angkor Wat is amazing from afar but it's not that great when you start exploring the insides. We really liked the Bayon temple. (I think that's where they filmed Tomb Raider.) Might be because we visited the Bayon temple after we went back to our hotel to eat lunch and took a nap. The nap was extremely necessary; by noon we were already out and about for 8 hours! We ate at a restaurant nearby our hotel and finally tried the Amok Fish dish which is a traditional Cambodian dish. It was very tasty :)

Angkor Wat!

Inside Angkor Wat

Forgot which temple this was.. oops

The trees are oldddd

Much needed lunch

Very delicious amok fish

Other than visiting the Bayon temple in the afternoon we went to another temple for the sunset. The line up was huge because they limit the number of people up the temple. We made it but the sunset was nothing compared to the sunrise. Also we were exhausted. It was the most physically draining day of our trip but it was very fun.

Bayon

Really cool structures

It was hot hot hot

Our fave temple

Temple Run

Another temple

Sunset

After a long day out we freshened up and headed to the night market. We had traditional Cambodian food at a dai pah dong near the night market. Despite them taking forever to make our food it was very delicious. Most of our best meals were at dai pah dongs. Then of course we had to get a foot massage after a bit of shopping at the night market :)

Dinner at the night market

BBQ ribs