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Well, after all the nightmare stories we had heard and read about the overland trip from Bangkok to Siem Reap, it turned out to be quick, easy and uneventful! After a less then 4 hour bus trip to the border, we cleared immigration, had a health check (which they wanted 40 baht for but we didn't have anything less than a $50 note so they let us off) and then shared a taxi with a Kiwi couple for the last 3 hours to Siem Reap - a bargain for $7 each and took half the time of the bus!!! We checked in to a nice guesthouse that was run by a guy who was orginally from a small village and in order to help and educate poorer people, he only employed youngsters from the outlying villages. They were all really friendly and helpful but it did feel a bit like "Deliverance", lol. We ate at the guesthouse and had the traditional and most famous Khmer dish, Amok - fish fillet baked in lemongrass and coconut milk - yum yum!! After dinner we ventured down "Pub Street where you can get a jug of Angkor beer for $3!!!!!!! But . . . . . . we were good and after two jugs and a couple of cocktails, we headed home as we were off to the temples the next day and didn't want to do it with a hangover. We hired a rickshaw and driver for the day and visited the main temples in the group - Angkor, The Bayon, Ta Prom and a few others. Ta Prom was our favourite, its the one from Tomb Raider where the trees are growing out of the top of the buildings. The next day we decided to skip the inner circle and went to Banteay Srei, a cute little temple that almost looked like a minature and on our way back, we stopped at a little stall that was boiling palm juice into palm sugar and we bought a little parcel of palm sugar tablets, they were gorgeous. We then went to the Rolous Group to watch sunset at Bakor (sunset didnt happen, the weather was crap!!!). As we're on a bit of a tight schedule now, we booked a bus to go to Pnom Penh the following day.
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