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Our lovely bus journey took us through the lovely country side of Cambodia.
A vast difference in life quality from city to country side. All along the road a majority were just shacks full of local people just hanging around.
We arrived in Siem Reap around 3 in the afternoon to a nice warm punch in the face; happens when sitting in ac for hours.
We got settled in for a bit then walked around the city: population just over 100,000 folks so it's not massive, just touristy. Walked around some of the night markets and went to the pub street: it's called pub street!
Way ate a nice dinner, a Cambodia BBQ in which we cook our own food: easy for them eh!
The menu of five meats that were set was: snake, beef, crocodile, frog legs and pork.
We said no to snake and frog but stuck with the Steve Irwin special.
Crocodile is very similar to chicken, you could fool someone easy if you said it was chicken.
Tyler got a fish pedicure, which is these type of fish ten just like eating dead skin ( it tickles a lot) but very cool. Tyler was joined by some lady boys, who were as tall as Tyler!
We went to the night market and bought some nice custom oil paintings and had a 30 mon foot rub.
Took a tuk tuk back to the hotel and counted sheep.
A tuk tuk is a motorcycle with an add on part then can hold people ( they are every were).
Woke up and lazed around for a good amount of time and decided to figure out of future plans.
Ate at pub street again! Ok we went they for all our meals! Also 50 cent pints of local beer.....yum!
Later in the day we went to Angkor Wat to see the main temple at sunset. Only a few people x 1500 x 1000= too many tourist.
We left and went to pub street lol!
We organized we would leave around 8 am to explore some of the temples: Bayon with over 1000 faces in stone, the tombs you saw in tomb raider the movie and back to Angkor Wat.
It was so massive: the amount of Japanese and Korean tourist actually ruins some of the experience: they block any good photos you take and are very pushy ( customs from back home). They are do determined to take there pics with peace signs like usual !
We spent a good majority of our day exploring the different temples as our tuk tuk driver was great showing us around the whole place. There is so many large temples to see you can actually buy 7 day passes however 1 was enough for us. The crowds and heat it to us after a while.
We were also quite entertained by all of the monkeys roaming around we've never seen monkeys in the wild so it was pretty neat being able to walk right up and close with them. Lots of cute pics!
We ended our night of course heading to pub street again and had great conversation with a couple young tuk tuk drivers. Ty was giving them tips on how to stand out from all of the other tuk tuks (because theres tons everywhere ) and they all just say " tuk tuk ?"as you walk by. So Ty was telling them to be original say a joke etc. The two guys really appreciated it as they and many others don't had access to education because they are too poor and many of them have to fight daily to get customers so they can make $15 per day if theyre lucky. It was a very eye opening conversation into the lives of others and how sometimes we get so caught up on not having the newest clothes or technology and they are working there asses off just to feed themselves and they're family and can afford education and for them to even be able to travel would take them a year just to possibly be able to saw enough money just to buy a passport so these things are not possible for them.
We will leave on that thought.
Tomorrow we are off to Bangkok Thailand via 10 hour bus ride. We bought tickets for a coach bus however were preparing for the worst (ie being crammed into an old mini van) haha
T&M
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