Whew!!! I have SOOO many pictures to process, and it’s been quite an overwhelming process. So glad to finally have a post up about Cambodia!! We got to see one of the seven wonders of the world in Cambodia. It was spectacular to say the least. Angkor Wat is the main temple attraction, but the whole area is phenomenal. Ry and I actually considered just staying at the beach for 4 extra days instead of making the trek to Cambodia. And, although tiring, it was worth it! We had a sweet awesome tuk tuk driver that I called ‘Mr. T’, and he drove us around for 3 days showing us everything, and he also took us to the floating village (most of my photos there are in the people post I’ve already done), and the flooded forest. We saw some pretty crazy stuff in Cambodia. One thing I wish I would’ve gotten a picture of was these guys driving through town, each with a dead whole pig on the back of their motorbike. Unfortunately I couldn’t catch it in time! We also witnessed crazy driving, and we thought a few times that we’d hit cattle or other various livestock, and die in SE Asia. We of course found Mexican food there as well, as we couldn’t live without it our whole trip!
On a sad note, It was pretty horrific to see the damage the Khmer Rouge caused to the people of Cambodia. We saw numerous warnings to not go “off the beaten path” as there are still active landmines throughout the country. So many people lived through the injustice to tell their story, and yet so many people didn’t. Unfortunately there are dictators like Pol Pot still around in many countries today, and the genocide and hatred brought on by them is running rampant. It just breaks my heart!
I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of our story:
We always do a jumping picture everywhere we travel!
One of the many stairclimbs I almost died on.
Prom Bayon we love you!
You know I love details
Yep, thought I was gonna pass out
Totally dig this image!
I love this pic because it looks like the tree is strangling the "hallway" of ta prahm.
And this one looks like fingers!
One of my fave from the whole trip. Ta Prahm was my favorite temple!
Another one of my faves!
Can you see how steep these stairs are?! Just another image to prove to you how easy it would be to literally FALL OFF A TEMPLE!
Another fave!
One of my all time bests. This was behind Angkor Wat where no one goes!
In love with this image. This monk must've meditated a LOOONG time because he had gone through lots of coconut smoothies!
The front of Angkor Wat
Sunrise + Angkor Wat = Spectacular. This is when I came up with my genius idea that they should have a Tuk Tuk parked in front of the temple for people to get Starbucks coffee since it was so cold! It could be called "The Buck Tuk". HEHEHE!
Part of the floating village
Lovin it!
Ryan is in love with this picture!
The boat I almost tipped over with my exhuberant picture taking!
Love it!
Ry got this shot of me sleeping on our boat back to the dock after the mangrove forest. Hope you enjoyed!
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