The last of the main Temples we visited, Ta Prohm, might just be the best of them. Part of it has probably been seen by more people than the rest of "Angkor Wat", thanks to it being used in the movie 'Tomb Raider'. Enjoy - and imagine life as it might have been here back in 1186, when building works for this commenced.

Hello again. Angkor Wat is a massive, ancient World Heritage Site located only 5 or 6 kilometres from Siem Reap. It was built in the early 12th Century as a Hindu 'Temple City' (this being the translation of the words Angor Wat). Very approximately 100 years later it was reconstituted as a Buddhist centre and so it remains today. There is so much history attached to both this and the other nearby structures that I won't insult anyone by pretending to know muc...

Hello fellow Simians. It is going to take me a while to put up the photos from Angkor Wat etc so here shortly will be some pix of the local night markets. We are a bit over the whole T-shirt and tourist stuff scene so Ken had the fish foot-nibbling Spa treatment and Des had a 30 minute back massage. Add to this the USD $0.50 draft Angkor beer schooners, dodging of scooters, cheap eats & noisy bars and it's a good way to spend some time before heading back...

Howdy. Most of today has been spent in Airports so not a lot to report. We had a flight out of Vientiane this morning to travel the 1hr 20 minutes to Pakse (pronounced Pack-say) in the south of Laos. From there we had a connecting International 1hr flight to Siem Reap in Cambodia - gateway to Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom etc., etc. Some pix are attached, although (maybe) tomorrow we will go to Angkor Wat - which will be much more interesting I expect. Sabaidee!