3 I'M STILL WONDERING WHY
Thursday, December 17, 2009
8:47 AM
I have just came back from Cambodia this afternoon. I couldn't say I enjoyed it a lot, but it wasn't that bad too. I just didn't like the water, which tasted metallic, and the place was dusty. There was this tuktuk driver who stalked us yesterday because we refused to take his tuktuk, but chose to walk instead. He insisted that the hotel had told us that we should not hire him. Well, maybe they had the intention of stopping him from fetching us around, but they certainly did not express any form of disapproval of us hiring him.
The food for the first two days were not satisfactory, but the food we had the last two were fine. There was this dish called Amok that I was particularly obsessed about, not that I liked it. It tasted pretty good the first time we tried it, but the taste changed in every restaurant we ate in, and I slowy grew to dislike it.
We went to Angkor Wat, a place you definitely visit Siem Reap, or Cambodia even. It turns out that Angkor Wat is simply one of the three major temples in the Angkor area. There are also Ta Prohm and Angkor Thom.
We first visited Ta Prohm, the site where Angelina Jolie filmed her movie, Lara Croft's Tomb Raider. My sister, my aunt and I thought that it was the best amongst all three. There are trees that grew on top of the temple, and its roots cascaded down, finally grasping onto the land. It was interesting.
Next, we went to Angkor Thom. We did not scout the whole area, but just the main temple - Bayon. It was, to me, the second most fascinating temple, but the rest disagreed. There were 49 towers, and each tower had 4 faces, so there were 196 faces staring at you as you walked down the aisles.
Angkor Wat was next. It was difficult to take photographs of this place and the carvings were more detailed, and thus it was blurry when photoraphed. However, it was large and most widely visited.
This is probably the most interesting area we went to throughout the trip. It was an enlightening holiday, as there were many poor children and families there. Poverty was widespread, and it was not uncommon to see the children selling you things like flutes and books, or even just asking for money.
I have tons of photographs (more than a thousand) and I shall post it sometime after I PhotoShop them until I feel happy. So happy waiting :D !
Xoxo, E
