The Cambodia Crew is in Siem Reap!! We left Phom Pehn this early this morning and headed off on our six hour bus ride to Siem Reap. It is a very pretty bus ride - surrounding the roads is lush green forest, rice fields, and cute little houses on the side of the road. Definitley a different way of living, but cool to see!
When we arrived in Siem Reap, we went directly to Angkor Wat to see the sunset. This was amazing! It still hadn't really set in that I was at a Seven Wonder of the World. The stone lit up with a yellow glow and the reflection it had of the moat was beyond beautiful. We then left the temple and went to the Night Market. The night market is a hip, cool market where you can buy unique and original items from Cambodia. After this, we all went to bed because we had an early morning and a long day ahead of us!
We woke up this morning at 4:30 a.m. to go see the sunrise at Angkor Wat. It was a bit cloudy this morning, but seeing it was so cool. After, we began our tour of Angkor Wat. The stone work and the stories that are told throughout the structure are breathtaking. I feel like even the pieces of stone that don't have a story being told - still have a story because of the detailed work went into this building. We climbed the original stairs to the first, second and third floors of the temple. Each of these representing the lower class, middle class, and higher class. Standing on the third floor of this temple reminded me of standing on the Empire State Building for the first time because you are looking down over one of the, if not the holyist places on planet Earth. Beautiful! We then went to the Angkor Thom temple. This temple has four faces shown on stone everywhere in it. Each of the faces are doing something different but they are all either facing North, South, East, or West. Very cool! Lastly, we went to the final temple of the day which was TamPohm. This temple is surrounded with the largest trees I have ever seen. They are overgrown and their roots are amazing. This is wear Angelina Jolie shot the movie Tomb Raider. I have never seen the movie, but our tour guide mentioned it! Every temple we saw today was breathtaking and so amazing. I still cannot believe I was at a Seven Wonder of the World yesterday. Crazy!
Thanks LM for a great trip! I recommend anybody seeing this if they visit Cambodia!
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