Last Wat Dara picked us up about 07:30 and we took a long ride (1 hour) to our final temple of Bantey Srei. This is the first one we've been to that seemed to be set up like a standard tourist attraction that you would see anywhere else in the world, by that I mean a welcome centre, toilets, information boards etc which gave the impression that the site would be quite large. It was the first time we had any real hassle from young children to give them money, w...

Over Wat This morning we made it out the hotel at 5am as planned and headed towards one of the most famous temples; Angkor Wat for "sunrise". I had been warned it takes a long time for the sun to come up so I did wonder if it would be worth it. We and several hundred other people wandered close to a lake in front of the temples in the dark. From about 6am the light started to increase quickly revealing the temple structure (hard to get a good picture of) and als...

Wat Climbing We had tried to arrange our 3 days of temple discovery with Huiyen the day before, and planned to start at 5am this morning. However, there was some Anglo-Cambodian confusion. Just before going out to dinner I asked her to confirm what time, she said "I will confirm when you get back", but she was not around when we returned. This actually was meant to mean "yes, you are going at 5, but I will let you know the route you are taking later". So she wa...