Angkor Wat

Up at 4:15am to get a tuk tuk to Angkor Wat for the sunrise. We would love to say at this point we got the perfect picture of the sun rising above the huge temple, but it actually just looked like this (see below). We gave up trying to get the perfect picture and found Chow, our tour guide for Angkor Wat. It was well worth it as he gave us the background history of the temple as well as the religions and Khmer empire. We finished the tour at around 8am just as the sun was burning the clouds away, walked up the top level and heading down for a quick breakfast.Read more