The day starts with a nice breakfast of omelet and fruit. Lim, our tuk tuk driver that collected us at the airport the previous day, is ready and we leave for Angor Wat around 8:00. It is already so hot!

I didn't know much about the temples before planning this trip but it was amazing to experience. Without going into too much detail, here are some of the highlights/ thoughts of the day:
- Angkor Wat was the first stop. It is obviously a very important temple - it is the one on the Cambodian flag. What is interesting is that it was initially built as a hindu temple but subsequently became a buddhist temple. Consisting of 3 levels, we enter on the first level, walk along a wallway, pass the lake on the left (in which the building reflects). It is very hot outside but this is a day of being outside without aircon, and it is amazing to think how these structures were built so in the 12th century. Many of the statues are headless as a result of what I assume religious differences over the many many years. It is only at the 3rd level where one's shoulders and knees have to be covered and we take the narrow staircase up to the hoghest point of the temple. On the way down we find the echo chamber that Inge had read about, and we happy.

- Next stop: Ankor Thom. We start by going through Bayon. Bayon consists of a number of large stone 'statues' with smiling faces of buddha in them.
We find the elephant xx, the leper xx and finally reach Lim on the other side of the temple where he guides us to one of the lined up tourist trap restaurants to have lunch.
'Noodles and coke' it is and after stocking up on another 1.5l of water each, we're on our way. At this stage of the day I had already drunk 2l of water!

We continue to 2 small temples and then to the stairs master! Lim warned us that there would be a 'few' stairs. What he didnt warn is about is how steep they'd be! So by literally crawling up the stairs and coming dowm on my bum, we can tick the box.

Ta Prohm is the last temple for the day - and my favourite. The guide book explains it as a good example of how man intially destroyed nature and then ultimately how nature 'got back' at man. Reason for this statement is that the roots of the trees grew the
through the temple walls. Definitely my favourite of the temples we saw.

Lovely on off snooze on the tuk tuk on the way back, a quick shower and yet again off to the pub street - and night market area. I researched for a restaurant that was less touristy than the one of the previous one where we could have traditional khmer food and when we got there it was closed! About 100 m away was another one where i had Amok - which was supposed to be fish in coconut milk served in a coconut, but turned out to be chicken in coconut milk served in a coconut. I didnt mind at all and it went down well with a local beer in a branded glass