Angkor Wat

Last night we were tuk tuked out to one of the temples near Angkor Wat to climb up and watch the sunset. Unfortunately it was fairly cloudy and the sunset was less than spectacular. Even worse was the look on our drivers face when we told him we wouldn't need him to drive us the next day as we wanted to hire bikes instead. Oh well can't please them all.

So today we eventually (after a leisurely breakfast and coffee at a bakery that would impress my Dad) set out on our rather dodgy bikes to the entrance to the temple complex. Its about 6 km to the starting point and then about 3 km to Angkor Wat after that. We went the wrong way around the route and approached Angkor Wat from behind which made it seem less impressive but it was also cool because there were less tourists and a whole heap of monkeys. We got some good footage of a couple of monkeys grooming each other.

Angkor Wat was pretty cool- the carved images along all the walls were pretty amazing. After this we biked around (about another 3 or 4 km) to the next temple called (insert name here when I have map with me and can remember). It was more ruins and in many ways more interesting- full of jungle vines and little kids playing amongst the old stones. A little girl tried to sell Tim and bag and when he said no she quickly moved onto her next mission which was to extract lollies in any form from us. We remembered that we had some weird coconut lollies in our bag we bought somewhere in Vietnam and so we emtied a pile into her hands and then attracted a few more kids like bees to the honey pot (is that the right expression?). With handfulls of sugar to rot their teeth even quicker they thought it was Christmas. By this stage of the day the sun was getting low and we wanted to bike back into town before it got really dark. We have a three day pass to the temples so we are taking it fairly slowly and just biking around as we feel like it.

We have tried called Thai airways but no answer. We heard that some planes were leaving the airport and heading to other airports to mvoe poeple out. We aren't sure what that means exactly and will wait until tomorrow to try calling again. Hopefully we will know if we are stuck here or not very soon. At the very least I probably have to inform my new employers that I might not make the start date!