Last Sunrise at Angkor

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  Siam Reap, Cambodia
Saturday, August 4, 2007

4:50am

Here I go again, waking up crazy early to beat the crowds and see the
sunset at Angkor.  Eating my breakfast and waiting or Franck so we
can take off.



1:30pm

I'm going to have some fried rice and chicken in the hotel.  Last
night I had some Loc Lac (a Khmer beef specialty dish) and it was
pretty good.  The meat had a nie sauce and was quite tasty.



Today, with Franck, we did the complete "mini tour" circuit, in the
clockwise direction.  We went straight up to Bayon, within Angkor
Thom, at sunrise.  Being one of our favorite spots, we stayed
there for a good hour or so.  There were some kids just outside
Bayon as well, so I snapped some shots of them too.



After Angkor Thom, we continued along the route to visit the temples I
had visited yesterday, which was fine with me, since I really enjoyed
them.



-ed. note: at this point, I was too lazy to keep writing in my written journal... so I'll add a couple of more details...



I'm super exhausted after riding my bike all over the temples and what
not.  I went to a really nice cello concert from a Swiss doctor
that has free children's hospitals around Cambodia for Cambodian
children for free.  He does concerts each saturday, his name is
Beatocello, and *please* check out his website and help with what you
can.



It's www.beatocello.com



Anywho, I'm probably off to sleep pretty soon here, it's already
almost 11pm here right now as I'm typing...  I've had an excellent
time in Cambodia and I definitely plan on coming back and maybe doing
some volunteer work.  I'm going to try and stop by tomorrow by the
hospital to give a blood donation.



Monday I take the much dreaded Siam Reap-Bangkok bus.  Once in
Bangkok I will stay with another very kind Couchsurfing host, before
heading off to Myanmar for a couple weeks or so next Friday, or
thereabouts...



Ok, good night.

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04 Me and one of the beautiful bas-reliefs	05 The morning sky	06 A Bayon Face	07 A bas relief of a war, at Bayon
08 Girls by a pond, by Bayon	09 One of the girls stretching	10 And Smiling	11 A monk at a shrine next to Bayon
12 The Terrace of the Elephants	13 Beautiful Wat Prohm	14 A monk walking around Wat Prohm	15 Some cows pulling a cart
16 Some shifted blocks of an Apsara bas relief	17 Baby girl at one of the temples	18 A face bas relief	19 Ladies doing some chants outside Angkor Wat
20 A bas relief with decay	21 Three Apsaras	22 Buddha with a Naga (multiheaded snake)	23 A hallway at Angkor Wat
24 The Doctor Beat,at Beatocello

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