Angkor Wat!! After a week here in Siem Reap I have finally decided to do the famous Angkor Wat tour. I met a nice girl from Germany named Heika at the hostel who is also doing tour so after a rushed breakfast we were picked up by our shuttle service at 8am. We met out guide who was full of energy and had a funny English accent, we then preceded to drive around town picking up other tourists. In the end there was about 7 of us including a very drunk old Finnish guy that couldn't even stand without the help of the guide. The first stop was the famous temple of Angkor Wat; after a short introduction to the temple we were guided around and told about all the intricate details of the place. By far the most amazing, unique, finely detailed and intact temple of any kind I have ever visited. Unfortunately there were lots of tourists and the temple proved very hard to photograph. The centre piece of the complex was this huge tower with an incredibly steep stairway that we were allowed to clim and explore. Even with a guide i find it very hard to truly appreciate these places and I always feel guilty that my visit would be more deserving of a history buff - for example. The area our tour would follow today was quiet small; visiting 5 temples and some keen travellers actually do the circuit on bicycles. The next temple we visited was in almost completely in ruins but luckily being restored. We wondered around, took photos with the 1000s of others and stood in awe at the intricate designs and beautiful jungle setting. By the end of the second temple the heat was incredible and luckily we got to stop for lunch - Ofcourse we were taken to an expensive resteraunt where prices were double. I decided to walk 500m to a little market and got 2 x omelettes and salad for $1. The day continued with more visits to more amazing temples including the famous tomb raider temple where tomb raider was film (famous for trees growing out of ruins). We also managed to loose our drunk Finnish friend who had been onto more beers at lunchtime. By 4pm we were all templed out and made our way to the last stop where we would be watching the sunset from the last temple. I got myself a fresh and cold coconut before making the short 20 minute trek up the hill. At the top there were 100s of tourist clambering to one side hoping for a lucky snap of the sunset. Over the next 40 minutes the sun slowly dissapeared presenting a spectacle of colours and shadows in the luminescent clouds that scattered the horizon. Sunsets are always beautiful and why is it people rarely ever watch them? From this point on I will make more of a commitment to watch the sunrise and sunset. By 6:30pm we were back on the city; exhausted from our long day of sightseeing. A quick goodbye and then it was off to the centre to find some dinner; ending up at a little area with women selling dishes out of pots. I picked up some fresh fish salad, a corn cob and a banana leaf enclosed Fish Amok to take back to the hostel. No surprise the fish amok was out of this world and even better then the one I had tried at the Khmer buffet resteraunt.