4:30am and the alarm wakes me and probably the other five people who were sleeping soundly in the dorm. I had to be up and ready to be picked up by my tuk tuk driver at 5am. Trying to get ready in the dark whilst being very quiet is never a success!! I managed to leave the hostel without waking the security guard though, great security!! On my tuk tuk at 5am, it's still dark but the roads are as full of tuk tuks, mopeds and trucks as it ever is during the day. There appears to be no rules of the road in Cambodia, well there isn't really any roads for rules to be made for more like bumpy old dirt tracks. You take your life in your own hands with any travel you do over here. We arrive at Angkor Wat after about 20mins, it's still dark and Simon (tuk tuk driver) points to where I need to head and that I need to meet him back at the big tree at 7:30am. It's dark, I can't see anything let alone a big tree so I just agree and head off in the direction he has pointed me in, hoping after sunrise that there is in fact a big tree to meet him at.

The long path down to Angkor Wat is bumping with holes and uneven paving stones. I forgot my torch so I following the light of someone else. Sunrise is a popular time to visit and there are hundreds of people there. I congregate with the masses and wait. It takes about an hour of waiting until the sun actually rose but it was well worth that wait, it was beautiful. Once the sun is above Angkor Wat I head inside to explore the temple. I can fully appreciate why it is one of the wonders of the world. I spent about 6 hours I total looking around the different temples, I did as much as I could before heading back to the hostel exhausted.

I walked in to the main town for some lunch and had a massage and facial which I ended up falling asleep during. I wondered around the shops and sat having a banana smoothie in the sunshine. The rest of the day I spent at the hostel chilling out and reading my book, a really relaxing afternoon which was very much needed. Travelling is at times so exhausting, the hostel was really quiet so it's been nice to have some me time.

Siem Reap is a hell hole, I hated the place if it wasn't for Angkor Wat I would have left there the minute I arrived. I never realised that Cambodia was as poverty stricken as it is, everywhere you turn there are young children begging you to buy them food. Young girls with babies asking you to buy them milk. They all come with the same line "hello lady, I don't want money, I want milk for my brother/sister". It's heartbreaking, these kids are filthy, they never have shoes and the plead with you. It's so hard to say no. You are told not to give them anything as what you do give them they then sell. It really is awful, I did end up buying some postcards from a little boy at Angkor Wat, I said no but his following and pleading of me made me crack. They only cost me 1$ and he was so thankful afterwards before disappearing off to his next victim. The police along bar street try to stop the begging from the kids, I watched one young boy probably about 4/5 years old approach a white couple, a police officer came out of nowhere and literally backhanded the child around the face knocking him to the floor and was shouting at him. The boy got up crying and ran off so fast. I had to stop myself from getting involved reminding myself that a Cambodian police cell probably wouldn't be the best accommodation this trip.