This is my last tdsycin Cambodia! I’m spending it in Siem Reap to explore Angkor Wat and all the other surrounding temples. There are actually so many temples that I’ll only be hitting the highlights. To see all of them you need a three day pass at the very least!

There it is! The iconic Angkor Wat. Probably the most famous of them all! I arrived to this view point probably around 5:30am after an early trip over from my hostel. We went to see the sunrise, but due to the weather it was a little disappointing. This picture is taken around midday.

My friends always wonders who take pictures of me. Today, I was exploring with two Americans from Colorado and a German fellow. The two Colorado kids we’re studying abroad at the University in Bangkok and came to Cambodia for a long weekend. So that explains how there are pictures of me. The other people took them. Also you can always ask a Chinese tourist anywhere.

It was a nice thing to be able to explore with the group, not only for the photos, but because we had a tuk tuk driver for the day and it cost $15 for the day whether you were a group of 4 or just by yourself. Luckily, I woke up at 4:30am and was able to ask around and join the group! So that was awfully nice of them to let me join!

These are on the inside of Angkor Wat our first temple of the day.

These next three monkeys were found posing in Bayon temples. Bayon was close to my favorite temple because of it’s awesome architecture. Lots of carved Buddha faces make it interesting as well. The Angkor area is actually made of up several different temples often with quite a distance in between. This is where the tuk tuk driver came in to get us here from the main Angkor Wat!

This is the temple Ta Prohm made famous my the movie Tomb Raider. This was one of my favorites because it was in, probably, my 4th grade social studies book that I first saw a picture of Angkor temples and Ta Prohm was the one featured. So I was able to fulfill traveling dreams inspire from way back.

Lastly, there was this nice lake. I don’t know a ton about it, but this is apparently where monks would bathe.

That’s it for now! Next up is making it into Thailand!