siem reap

Dear travel journal,
Today we came to siem reap. The last stop of our cambodian tour before back to bangkok :( we were up and packed and on a local bus by 8.30am and then started the slow bus ride to siem reap stopping and picking people up and dropping people off the whole way. With one 20 min stop about half way to use the toilet we arrived in siem reap about 2pm and jumped from the public bus to our minibus to the hotel stopping on the way tonget lunch. After lunch we checked into the hotel and got sorted. Then we went down to the lobby and got picked up by our afternoon tour guide who transported us to the atv head quarters. Thats right quad bikes - sooo much fun!!! We got there and signed wavers and had a safety briefing and had helmets and face masks put on us and then we all jumped on a bike with one of the guides behind us and did a quick up the road and back so that they knew that we could ride a quad bike on our own. Once we were all set and lined up we were off. Ladies at the front, gents at the back. At first it was slow going and quite boring to be honest. But then they randomly split us up and had us following different guides. Blake, felix and euan hooned off in one direction, nicola and dana in another, lisa and innisa in another, leaving me, gus, tom and bianca. And then the fun started. The boys clearly the advanced riders just came back covered in mud when we met back up. We were the second group - we did bumps and mud and fields and got up a bit of speed, i completely drifted around a corner in a wet field at one point, accidently, but worked perfectly and was fun. We had an awesome time. We stopped once as a group in the middle of a field and all lined up and took pictures and took in the scenery and the second time we stopped bumper to bumper and watched the sunset from the side of a rice pattie field. It was awesome - locals everywhere, farming and working the land, kids coming out to say hi, cows and water buffollow everywhere. Dragonflies everywhere when we stopped for the sunrise. It was so good. People living in their traditional homes off the land. Traditional cambodia is beautiful. We got back 100% muddy which was awesome and then transfered back to the hotel. After a quick clean up we headed out toa local cafe for dinner. Then i headed back to the hotel and showered and got sorted for tomorrow. 4am start - sunrise at ankor wat - it should be amazing. But means i need to crash. Night xoRead more