Warning. When in Indochina if you ask for a large drink, it will come out in a pitcher. :)

This arvo we have visited the Angelina jollie temple - can't remember the actual name but our guide would not stop talking about her! The temple is a labyrinth of corridors and court yards and Many ppl get lost in temple. Our guide paniced when one person went missing from the group. The Indian government is currently restoring this temple. They have done quite a lot already but much of the temple is in ruins and the big trees are causing more damage as their ...

The picture here is of the Sky Palace temple pools. The King Built two pools, one large one for the women and one tiny one for the men. He had 100 concubines so quite a few ladies to keep clean. The king lived in a wooden palace, strolling distance from the temple. King had to pray to snake god each night before he could dine with his concubines. Around the temple and palace is a 3km wall, most of the people lived within these walls. Outside the walls was a ...

Baphoun temple They Started reconstruction of the temple by numbering all stones, removing them, rebuilding the foundations and then putting the stones back in. However, War broke out and restoration was left for a few years. When the crews returned to continue reconstruction moss had grown over the numbers on the stones, now it is a massive jigsaw puzzle to rebuild the structure. When you stand and look at The front wall of the temple it has a massive carvi...

Made it to Siem Riap yesterday. Long bus ride, but beautiful country side. We rose early this morning, 4:30am to be exact, it was so dark, no moon. We stumbled our way through the dark and perched ourselves on what I thought was a rock. When the sun rose we had the best seats in the house, (see my picky attached) of Angkor Wat , and we were even sitting on a temple!! Was so beautiful. Because of the haze, the sun was a rosy red colour and came up directly behi...