More tempting temples to explore

Now I’m not really an early morning guy, but when my alarm went off at 4:30am I swung my hooves out of bed and got ready to set off for a special treat – to watch the sun coming up over Angkor Wat.

As you wander around Bayon Temple you get the feeling that you are being watched – and so you are!  There are huge stones faces looking down at you from all angles.  

  

I couldn’t help wondering what they were smiling about – some mysterious joke from the distant past?  












  


Later in the day we headed off to the outlying temples.  My  favourite was Ta Som – with its grand structures in semi-ruin where the strangler figs are slowly claiming back the jungle.

The wonders of Angkor Wat

Despite the fact that there’s not much leg-room on a plane (especially for those of us with four legs!) , I managed to have a little snooze on the overnight flight to Bangkok. The next day we took a bus to the Cambodian border and from there on to Siem Reap.

This morning we jumped into a tuk-tuk and headed for the temples.

The first visited was Angkor Wat. The name means ‘temple that is a city’, and it is indeed huge – really awesome! I felt dwarfed amongst the massive structures, each with its own history and tales of epic battles hewn out of stone.