Bangkok and Angkor PicturesHello All! We all just back from a four day journey in the Angkor Province, Cambodia. We had a great time touring the once hidden temples of the region. The most famous and most largest being Angkor Wat. My favourite was Bayon, a temple that featured hundred of carved faces. I spend a little too much time uploading photographs and have exhausted my time on this government computer. So for now I will let the pictures do all the talking. They begin in Bangkok where we took a tour of the Grand Royal Palace. The compound was the home of the past nine kings of Thailand. The current king built a new palace outside of Bangkok because of security concerns. We took a ride on a longtail boat and toured the vast waterways of the city.
After two days in the capital, we took a ride across the eastern border toward Cambodia. Once across the border we averted one of the notorious scam busses, a bus that promises a quick and cheap ride but provides nothing of the sort, after we were verbally accosted by a 17 year old Cambodian 'tour agent.' We left the tour agency at pace, hopped into a couple of Toyota Camry taxis, and arrived in Siem Riep after a wild three hour ride on a dirt road. The ride consisted of a rugged dirt road with no lanes. The cabbie seemed to just follow the path of least resistance while swerving thru motorcycles, tuk-tuks, bikers, cars, semis, and people. Good times. We spent two days touring the temples of the Angkor region. There are close to twenty temples, or Wats, in the region. Built by Khmer kings around 1000AD, they were consumed by the jungle after the Khmer kingdom fell. Locals still new they existed and monks still lived in the temples. Around 1860 the French 'discovered' these temples again. They cleared the jungles and restored the temples to their origional state. One of the temples was left untouched to show visitors how the temples appeared when the French explorers found them.
Enjoy the pictures and I hope to be able to update more shortly
-dc
1 comment:
Looks amazing!! Enjoy your last couple weeks in Thailand!
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