Cambodia #9

(updated - there are still a lot more photographs to come, but uploading is really slow and we seem to never have much spare time.. check back in some time and hopefully I'll have had a chance to load more photographs!)

More images from our last day at the temples, finally we made it to the most famous one:

Angkor Wat and we found these monkeys hanging out... Did we tell you

that earlier that day a monkey walked straight up to Jason's bag and

successfully reached for a plastic bag within it.. That was the last we saw

of the expensive almond croissant that we don't usually spend money on...

(being tight as we are we usually eat local fare)

Anyhow, here is one of the type of monkeys that goes for french patisseries..

and here as a team.. ready to steal snacks...

once inside the temple we tried taking some yoga photos for Jason:

and one of Birgit:

one of the long bas relief walls surrounding the Temple,

I can't tell you right now which one this one is, not without

the guidebook.. Most of these reliefs (all carved into stone

some 800- 1000 years ago) depict tales of the Ramayana, which

is a story about Hanuman the Monkey God.. Or else battle

scenes of the Mahabharata, which is the Hindu story of creation

of the universe and all of human kind...

close-up attempt..

Jason likes seeds (and picks them up whenever he finds one):

Our last day visiting the temples, this view outside

Angkor Wat as we unlocked our bikes.

What you see here is how tall rice should be around

the time of harvest. Nakry's rice is about 1/3rd as tall

as this, spoilt by the recent flooding.

sunset over the rice field..

We bough tickets for the boat from Siem Reap

to Battambang. The journey took 7 hours (more pictures soon)

Great seat for seeing the scenery, awful seat for noise..

We sat not 3 meters away from the noisiest engine..

The 7 hour journey was the most beautiful but also very

exhausting because of the extremely loud engine. We put

toilet tissue into our ears for protection.

The kind of views that we would have for the next

hours to come: The Tonle Sap Lake is a really unique

lake.. why? I'll write later - we are hungry and must go eat now.

monks must pee, too:

squeezing through tight waterways (front and back-view

oops, back view not uploaded yet)

And as soon as we arrived we risked life and limb

on this crazy adventure (overpriced, too, $5 each,

plus $2 transport, plus $1 mandatory 'tip')

We took a Bamboo Train - utterly irresponsible..

But very much fun and we are happy to report that

no bones were broken, we remain in one piece.

More later, we are hungry and must eat breakfast now...

(it's afternoon, we've been awake a long time but just

needed a rest day, so we didn't leave the guest house at all)