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Hello everyone, again apologies for the gap.. we've been busy traveling..
25th July- Luke threw up this morning. After this me and luke got a lovely double room in preperation for our good freind jims departure. We then headed out into bangkok to meet one of my freinds from home who was traveling up to loas, jim brought a wicked rucksack for his journey home and some last minute suviners shopping and we then headed off to the airport to drop jim off. Unfortunatly we picked a women driver who didnt know; 1) how to drive and 2) where she was going. Finaly made it to the airport for hugs and kisses to see jim off. Me and luke got back to kao san road brought a couple of books and beers then got early night.
26th- Bit of non-day we got up at 6.30 to catch our bus to camdodia, 2 hour border cross to then get dropped in seim reap in the middle of a feild surounded by tuk tuks.. we made it to the hostel in the end tho and got some tea and bed.
27th- Today we hired some bikes and rode into central seim reap, we visited the old market witch was nuts, you name it, they sold it. Rode up to some temples in seim reap city then up to royal gardens. we then decided to attend a 1 hour mediation session (it was free) and it turned out to just be us.. talked about some weird stuff and then started meditaing.. i felt horizonal and floating and luke lost all the feeling in his arms.. we rode back home in the pissin rain and dryed out for abit befor dinner. Went to a place called temple where there are all these tradional camdoian dancers all doin there thing while you eat, was a good show and we polished 4 mains between us. We then bumped into two of the guys off the bus we were on and got some beers.
28th- Collard a tuktuk driver for the day, to drive us around Angkor Wat. This is a absolutly amazing place and we both agreed is by far the best temple we have visited, its more of a massive complex of tons of temples. First we visited The angkor wat, the bigest of the bunch which was amazing, so big yet so detailed, then we went bayon (the one with the faces) and load of others. pretty hard goin as you really have to explore the temples, ie clambering through, over and round them. After a long day we went back to freshen up and headed back into town for some curry and a spot of shopping at the night market.
29th- Another travel day, caught the bus down to phnom penh. Hot bus, surounded by locals eating bags of crickets. Arrived and checked in then went and got some food by the river front. Feeling pretty tired we caught a film at our hostel and some beers befor bed.
Today- We have visited the s-21 museum and the killing feilds outside the city, both from the civil war here not over 30 years ago. Pretty horrid experience but part of cambodias history, won't go into details on here. Chilled out for a bit now we just off to a bar to catch some happy hour drinks.
hope all is well at home!
xxx
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