I know I am behind but I'm doing my best...
Sunday 23rd Feb
Up early for breakfast before 7:00am, picked up and off to visit and photo lots of the different Temples within the Angkor Thom complex and it's huge! So again the iconic faces of Bayon, Baphoun, Elephant Terrace and Preah Khan.
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| Iconic Faces! |
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| East to West or was it North to South? |
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| Spong Trees takes roots in the structures. |
Into town around 7pm, with Narid but only till 10:00pm as I have to be up early. I think I may of had some chicken dish and some beer.
Monday 24th Feb
Up extremely early, for 5:00am pick up! Sunrise at Wat Thmei overlooking Angkor Wat, got a couple of misty shots but sunrise was really a disappointment! However, while it was still quite dark did some light painting as in the photo!
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| Light Painting. |
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| Angkor Wat 's Morning Mist |
Then to Ta Prohm, where again there were many hidden treasures that have been highlighted and I now have my own version of these!
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| A hidden little gem! |
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| What do you see? |
Next to a much smaller temple Pre Rup, where I took only a few pics but one was of a local artist painting T-shirts, of which I bought one $8USD, so I have an original!
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| Painting My T-shirt! |
Back to Peace of Angkor office where Dave showed how he uses Lightroom (Adobe) on his Mac to correct photos, not necessarily enhance!
Lunch across the road, I went for a small Chicken fried rice and a beer.
The to Baray Teuk Thia and Me Chreay Villiage to get some shots with the Buffalo carts, etc. this was quite fun and while we the there the local duck farmers were moving their ducks to be fed and these ducks certainly knew where and when to go. Is was so funny to see them waddling along.
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| Buffalo cart on the track at dusk. |
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| The Buffalo kicks the dirt track with the Sugar Palms in the background. |
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| Come on guys, it's tea time, lets get fat! |
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| Workers return home for the day! |
Into town around 8pm, with Narid, arranged pick up for 10:0pm as I was up early. I think I may of had some chicken dish and some beer.
Tuesday 25th Feb
Breakfast and off to Tonle Sap, this was a couple of hours drive, we stopped on route at a local village market to take a few snaps.
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| Spare Tyre anyone? |
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| Now lets see what I can get for dinner... |
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| Dried Fish...emm |
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| I'm Happy even if I only have one tooth... |
On the way to the river port Kompong Khleang a local farmer and his family were thrashing the rice, so stopped to a few shots. Believe it or not but I'm sure the Stig was operating the thrasher! See pics.
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| The chaff being stacked! |
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| Yes, I work part time in the rice fields - The Stig! |
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| It's a Family affair - all hands to the pump! |
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| I want to do More... |
At the river port we picked up the boat to go out to the lake. Got some interesting snaps of stilt houses, boat houses, school houses from the boat. Out to the floating markets, watch a fisherman's catch being sold.
Will post some pics later...
Back to the village and lunch with a local family, breaded fish, steamed veg, soup and a salty fish, very tasty but too salty.
In the evening on the way to getting a Tuk Tuk, I met Stephanie a young French lady who actually works in Da Nang, Vietnam. So we went into town together and had dinner, the Khmer BBQ, very similar to the Laos version but with some additional meats, i.e. Crocodile and Squid. At 10:30pm back to the Blue Pumpkin to meet Narid for our ride home.
Wednesday 26th Feb
A free day but I hired Savin for $10/15USD to take me to the temples on the big circuit. After 3 or 4 more I decided that enough was enough and gave Savin $20USD for today and a tip for the last 4 days of him driving me around, I'm sure he doesn't get paid enough especially as the other Tuk Tuk drivers charge $25/30USD per day.
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| Snapped this Dragon Fly in the fields |
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| Another Iconic Face |
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| A Tree protected entrance... |
Time to chill for a few hours or so, updated my MacBookAir, transferred all photos, etc. Then at 7pm meeting Dave to go to a show Khmer Rock, which is a local run by an Arts organisation for the less privileged, and is about modern day culture! Took a couple of hundred photos of their acrobatics...
To Dave's local for a couple of large beers (no I don't have a drink problem, hic!). Then a Tuk Tuk back.
Thursday 27th Feb
Late breakfast as checking out today. Stephanie gave her business card so I can email her my blog of Bhutan. Off to Siem Reap airport, although the hotel arranges transport I had to pay $4USD for the privilege! Got some more $USD for my Bhutan trip $300 USD through the ANZ plus their standard fee of $5USD!
Look out for my Bhutanese experience next...
Phileas
Phileas
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