4.02.2006
On leave

So I just got back from Cambodia a couple of days ago and have been thinking whether i should post up the pics from my lil cam. Thing is i went with my trusty Nikon and shot mostly film - ended up with about 15 rolls of film.

Nicky and myself were there for 4days. And this is a brief run down on our itinery

Day 1 > Arrive in the morning and dived straight into the temples.
Nite > Was invited to a Cambodian wedding and both of us got quite sloshed
Day 2 > Temples again
Nite > Ate dinner in the Pub street area
Day 3 > Sick of temples so we hired electric bikes but cycled to Angkor still
Nite > Pigged out with junk food in the room
Day 4 > Woke up too early got to the airport too early thanks to nicky

Anywayz, Taxi costs about US$20 a day and i recommend that the first day to hire one dude to take you ard to the farther temples. Motor transport costs about US$10-15 a day and is good for transport within the angkor area. And the electric bike (US$5/day) is a must for just fun and more fun.

So by the second day we were what they call "TEMPLED OUT" and were so sick of temples that the grandeur and splendeur and all that wore out - and all we saw were stones and more stones. We spent the first half of the last day in town and ate like a local - hired a bike and rode to angkor to 'hunt' for monks. Monks are such rarity now as most of them are vacated out of the temples and put to stay in pagodas which are only found in the angkor area. - Such is the result of tomb raider and the massive tourism that followed.

The weather was weird - sunny on the first day, cloudy on e second and the third ended up with a storm. We were on our electric bikes in almost knee deep waters when we were cycling from angkor back!

Overall it was a nice experience - not the best - but nice enuff for a short holiday. We din manage to capture one of those postcard pics of angkor tho.. sigh. Posting up some random pics, but I'm still 'Templed out' so i'd rather not see any pics of temples. Waiting for my 15rolls of film to be develop so i know if i still have it or not.