We arrived at the bus station in Siem Reap and it was pouring down with rain. Our Tuk Tuk was waiting for us when we arrived and it took us to Yellow Guesthouse, the partner hotel to Okay Guesthouse in Phnom Penh. We got a nice room for $10. We lounged around the hotel for the rest of the day and went shopping the following day. There are numerous markets in Siem Reap with stalls selling everything from trinkets to obscure meat. We put on our bartering hats and set about spending lots and lots of money. We ended up buying a small suitcase to put it in that we plan on using as hand luggage. We think it's within the size limitations but we will find out soon if not. We had a few drinks in the evening but had to get up early, we were doing Angkor the next day.

We had booked a guide and a Tuk Tuk to take us around the main temples for the day. We thought we would splash out as these are easily the most impressive temples we have seen so far, and we wanted to know a bit more about them than we would by just walking around on our own. We started at Angkor Wat, easily the most famous temple of them all. It is huge! Walking through the entrance gates into the grounds, then proceeding through more gates and up lots of stairs. Every surface has some kind of carving or ornament on it, nothing is plain. We hadn't eaten breakfast so we had an early lunch, having to borrow money off the Tuk Tuk driver as we didn't have enough on us after the $20 per person entrance fee. We then headed to the Walled City, which I can't remember the name of, and saw a couple of temples in there before heading outside the Walled City and saw a few more temples including Angkor Thom and Wat Phrom, the temple used in the Tomb Raider film. They were all impressive, a lot more than any we had seen previously, some were held up by trees growing through them, others had partly collapsed. It was very interesting. I can't really explain them much more than that in this blog, the photos will be much better. We arrived back in the afternoon and both fell asleep pretty swiftly. We went out for dinner and came back and watched TV for a while before going to bed, we had to get up at 6am the next day.

The staff of the hotel booked us a share taxi for the journey to the Thai-Cambodian border. We planned on getting a bus to take us all the way from Siem Reap to Bangkok but had been told the journey was horrible. The majority of roads in Cambodia outside the major cities and popular routes are unpaved. Although the road to the border had been improved, it wasn't great. Huge potholes everywhere and we were often crawling along at aboiut 10mph. The taxi cost us more money but got us to the border in about half of the time, and was more comfortable than a non air-con bus which would have taken 6 hours to get to the border. We got our passports stamped to leave Cambodia and managed to book onto a minibus to take us directly to Khao San Road. We passed though Thai immigration and caught the bus to Bangkok, arriving in the early evening.