Arrived in Siem Reap on Thursday after another 18 hour bus journey.
Just had a walk about on Friday, really nice town, completely different from vietnam - there are a few proper shops which is good as we can now buy food for making lunch. Lots of nice cafes, restaurants and pubs too and Jasmine Lodge, our guest house is fab, especially as it has a pool table and tv&dvd player upstairs. The kids are already good friends with the guys who work here. It's rainy season just now which means it's really really hot all day then about 3pm it rains for an hour - rain that I have never seen before in my life! I didn't realise it could be so heavy! The streets literally flood but then the rain stops and the sun & plants have the rain sucked up and the streets dry again in about half an hour.
Went to Angkor Wat on Saturday which was truly awesome. Unbelievable. Really can't describe it. Kids loved it too. I think our favourite was where they have left one temple as they had all been found in the 1800's - with jungle growing all around and the roots if massive trees having grown over the top of the temple walls. When you see the trees that have grown up and around the temples it really makes you appreciate just how old they are. All the stone carvings and sculptures are amazing and all tell their own stories. Incredible to think they were built over 1000 years ago.
Met a nice girl called Jess in the hostel on Saturday night. She's here on her own working at a school so she came out for dinner with us. Went down to the food stalls at the night Market which do fantastic BBQs and are much cheaper than the restaurants. Lewie and I shared a table BBQ where you cook the meat in the middle (we had chicken and crocodile!) and round the outside they pour in a kind of soup that you then add veg and noodles to - all for $2! decided to treat ourselves to a cocktail seeing as we had saved on food so went to Funky Munky as they have $2 cocktails all night on a Saturday.