Another day, another temple

It's our last full day in Cambodia before we head to Thailand. We decided today was the day to see the sunrise over Angkor Wat temple. This meant waking up at 3:45am to be at the temple in time for the sunrise. The weather had said it would be partially cloudy but we were still optimistic. Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be and the clouds masked the sunrise completely to the point that we weren't even sure if the sun had come up until we turned around and saw how light now was. We did get some cool photos of the silhouette of the temple though. We then set off with our driver to complete the outskirt circuit of temples at Angkor Wat archaeological site. Today we visited Preah Khan, Neak Pean, Ta Som, East Mebon, Sras Srang and Banteay Kdei. When we arrived at Preah Khan we discovered that it didn't open until 7.30 so we hung around in the tuktuk and they actually kindly let us in at ten past instead. While waiting we heard a noise behind us but didn't think much of it until our driver pointed and we saw a thin long white snake on the ground that had fallen out of the tree. By the way our driver was reacting we're pretty sure it's venomous if not deadly as he was pretty scared and kept moving our tuktuk further away every time it moved. Luckily after a while it just climbed back up a tree. It did bring home how close we are to wildlife here. This first temple was particularly amazing as a lot of it hadn't been rebuilt or restored so climbing around you can easily get lost in the abundance of corridors, rooms and outside spaces. We also visited a temple which is completely surrounded by water so you cannot actually go inside this temple only look from the fence line. All the temples we saw were beautiful and I do love how each temple is created in the same style but they all look completely unique and individual. After 5 hours we were feeling the early morning for sure and the energy levels were dwindling. We only had a couple of temples left so we did those and headed back to town around lunchtime. We got our driver to drop us at the old market so I could buy a few things I wished I had bought yesterday. We went to a place called the Pizza Company for lunch as a pick me up. We have seen this restaurant all over Asia so thought it must be good. The food was nice but massively overpriced and the portions were tiny. We were so glad we shared and didn't spend more money there. We headed back to the hotel and chilled out for a bit and had a nap before hitting the pool. I throughly enjoyed a banana shake by the pool, a drink our hotel makes which I've become obsessed with! We've decided as we have a 3 day pass to the Angkor Wat site to attempt sunset again tomorrow morning before our flight at midday so fingers crossed it will be better tomorrow.Read more