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So we boarded the bus in Phnom penh at 1 pm. Our next stop would be Siem reap for a few nights or so. The bus we got on was luxury so that was a relief as i've had my fair share of rubbish ones since being away. On the way up there nick and Neal told me about the video they recorded of me last night. Dude, we watched it about ten times on our way up to Siem reap all crying with laughter every time we watched it.
So we arrived at Siem reap bus station. It's about 5 km out of the main town so we had to get a tuc tuc in to the city to where mark was staying. As always we got swarmed by people trying to sell us there guesthouses as we got off the bus. Some bloke was that determined to get us to his he followed us on his bike offering us free weed if we stayed there. Sorry buddy, we don't need drugs, were high on life anyway!!! We got to the guesthouse and met Mark, Steph and laura. Nick and neal stayed up the road as there wasn't any available rooms left. That night me, Nick and Mark headed out to some bar to participate in a quiz night. When we arrived the lady who owned the bar said two gorgeous girls need some more players so could we join them. Gorgeous girls??? of course we can. She took us over to them and they were rough to say the least. Hang on a minute, your the girl who tried to rape me in Sihanoukville? Ha ha, yup it was definitely her. Mark and Nick new what happened and we giggled like girls until we left that place. About the quiz we didn't do to well. We came second to last but it's taking part what counts, eh. "God there's a really annoying muslim screaming down a speaker in the street telling everyone to come to the temple to pray. Going to go and knock it off with a stone unless he shuts up soon" After the quiz we headed out to the main strip to the Angkor wat bar. Laura and steph came and joined us and we met some random guy from california. He was hilarious but a bit of a head case. We left that bar and went to the Temple bar. Here it's really seedy and full of hookers and lady boys so we left there pretty quickly and went back to the same bar. We danced, got drunk and did what we did most nights. We then headed to the x bar. It's a roof top bar with pool tables, football tables and chilled music. Nick was chatting up some ugly blonde chick and as we went to leave she came with us and her friend. We stopped off at some supermarket and Nick thinking he was in there went to buy some condoms. By the time he came out she had done a runner on a tuc tuc and he said to another driver follow them. What a dick. Anyway he got dropped off at a food vendre where we was now at. Sex pest springs to mind.
The next day we went for some breakfast and then me and mark headed to some war museum. It was quite interesting and you got to play with guns and rocket launchers. A bit of a lad thing i guess. On the way back we stopped off at some river where they were doing the dragon boat racing. We watched that for about 30 minutes, got board so we headed back to the guesthouse. We arranged with our tuc tuc guy to pick us up at 4 30 in the morning to take us to Angkor wat so we could see sun rise. It's hard work travelling, getting up when you want to, doing whatever you want and partying every night. What i'd give for a 9-5 job!!!! huh. That night the swiss chick Claudia was turning up so me and Nick headed back about midnight to find her. She wanted to come with us to Angkor wat too. I thought it would be a good idea to take it easy that night as i have an early start. Mark couldn't gasp that idea..
Right 4 30 am and i'm waiting for mark to show up. He turned up by chance at 4 45 thinking it was only about 2 am. He was smashed and had fallen asleep in a bar. He always does things in such good style and never fails to let the team down. So me, Claudia and the drunken mark are heading to the big Angkor wat temple for sun rise. It was going to be a long day and even more so if mark doesn't stop singing. We arrived there and had to wait about 30 minutes before the sun came up. Me and Claudia got a coffee and mark got a beer. Times like this your proud to be english????. The sun rise over the temple was amazing and a sight i'll never forget. It's strange when you see amazing things, places, statues, countries. It's not until you have left and then your "like bloody hell i have just seen that, i have just seen one of the most inspired and spectacular monuments ever built by the human mind. Strange. So we walked around the first temple for about 3 hours. It's amazing and know one can explain how or why it was built all those many years ago. All i do know is every temple was a different kind of Buddhism for the monks. By the way mark was still singing and drinking beer at 8 in the morning, great entertainment. We visited about seven different temples throughout the day. Every temple had it's own little special quark about it. We even visited the one where tomb raider was filmed. This one was pretty spectacular as it has huge trees growing out the middle of it. Unfortunately Angelina Jolie wasn't there though. I may of had to show her my own temple if she had been. We had planned to stay for sunset but by 4 pm we was all shattered so went home for some well deserved sleep. By the time we left Mark had thrown up. Good effort lad.. That night me, Nick, Neal and claudia went out for some beers and a nice dinner at some irish pub. I had Sheppard's pie. Love it, as i have not had one since being away. Not quite as nice as my home made one's though. Surprising enough mark failed to make it out with us and retired home for an early night. Soon after so did claudia so it was just us three us out on the town. Come one o'clock and not being able to get drunk (hate when that happens) me and neal headed back to his to chill out. We ended up watching some documentary on whales. You can't beat a good old nature programme.
I got up around mid day and decided to go to some crocodile farm with claudia. It was fairly interesting and pretty cool to see these reptiles which have been around since the dinosaur years. Some where huge and i got a wicked shot of one with it's mouth wide open. Wouldn't want to slip in to there den though. You could buy a croc for $2000 and for that you would get all it's skin and meat. Can't say i would eat the meat nor would i wear crocodile skin. Suppose you girls could of made some boots out of it if anyone is interested.. We were all leaving the next day. Claudia was going to Bangkok and we were going to Battambang. We heard the boat journey there is meant to be amazing. That night we all had a chilled one watching man u loose to Bolton. How can we loose to them??!
Battombang here we come.
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