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Our second day in Siem Reap we did as planned and hire a couple of bikes, 1 dollar each with free bottle of water, without hesitation we joined the insane roads of town and headed for the temples of Angkor. Even after a few minutes of biking along it was clear it was going to be a frightful but fun way of getting around, there seem to be only one road rule and that is avoid other people and they'll avoid you. All we tried to avoid were the elephants and monkeys, the monkeys were wild the elephants had uniforms on!
After 6kms we had our tickets and had reached the biggie the heart and soul of Cambodia, Angkor Wat, goes without saying it is amazing. The approach alone biking along the moat as it looms in the near distance was worth the sweaty ride. The biggest religious building in the world just didn't disappoint, its tricky to describe so check out the photos but even our professional photography skills won't do it justice. After exploring the grounds for a couple of hours and being blessed with good luck for $2, apparently luck isn't free!
We jumped back on the bikes and headed for Angkor Thon, built in 1181 had a population of a million when London's was just 50 thousand. Yet again stunning, a series of temples and religious structures built around a wooden city that has now gone.
Our favourite site was Bayon, looked as old as it was and is we think (quite literally) the temple in the Tomb Raider movie. After visiting Praeh Khan , believed to be a Buddhist university, we headed back for Siem Reap town, the traffic had picked up but with weary legs we made it back unscathed to find that our guest house had had a power cut so no shower and no fan to cool us down and get the days dust off us. So after a classy strip down wash with bottled water in the sink we headed out for a curry and a few beers to round off a fantastic day.
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