Todd and I reached one of our biggest milestones for the trip today, we rented bikes for $1 and headed out towards the Angkor Temple complex. This area was huge, we rode around all day and saw maybe half of the temples just in this one complex! And I must say, it unquestionably lived up to expectation. Some of the pictures simply can't capture the awe inspiring ruins. But we were able to just walk around at leisure and kind of scramble around the walls like Indiana Jones (the better, old ones) and that really made the experience, because it was just that, not sight seeing, but experiencing it, being able to lose ourselves in another time, a time of Great ancient Khmer civilizations, seeing the holes in the massive building blocks where laborers carried them into place, presumably with bamboo poles, seeing the ancient squatty-potty (and realizing that things haven't changed much), being able to run our hands over the meticulous carvings in the stone and imagining a chisel in our tired hands. This is what we came for. Enjoy the pictures... I'd write more, but I've been battling this (ancient?) computer for about 3 hours trying to manage all these pictures and to honest, I'm plum tuckered out!
Cycling around the Angkor Temples-Day One-Photo Album
Also some other pics
Photo Album from the train ride into Cambodia
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