Sunday, May 1, 2011

Cambodia Day 13

Today was the longest day of the trip, it started with a 4:40 am wake up call. We left at 5 to go and see sunrise over Angkor Wat. The down side to that was that the clouds were out so the sunrise wasen't very good. Oh well it was still cool to be there. We left and ate breakfast before we would go back in to go inside the real thing. We steped in to see a big buda statue. Everywhere on the walls is carved with such detail, it was crazy. The walls told storys and everything was perfect. All they used to make it were their little wooden and rock tools. Some of the designs repeat perfectly and they didn't have a stencil, I now see why this was a wonder of the world.

We toured all of ankorwat and most of the temples and went to the third level where the holyest prople would worship, the whole thing is amazing. After that we left to see angkor thom, another amazing temple there are four faces on each point, one facing west, one east, one south, one north, and there are hundreds of them it's really cool.

Then we went to see the final temple,  Tompoot, which is uniqe by how the trees and temples interlock. There are trees 200 feet tall that have their roots going in and out of the rock and completely grabing the temple. This is where Angelina Joliey filmede her movie Tomb Raider. This place is crazy.

After looking at everything we went back to the hotel, packed up and drove five hours straight to the airport, hoped on the flight to Korea, Mission complete! Thank you everyone!

Cambodia Day 12

Today was travel day... We got to wake up a little later then usual because we were leaving the hotel a half hour later. We were going to Siem Reap, we were going to see an old 7 wonder of the world! We got in the cvan and drove six hours. People in the van were making fun of me beacsuae i slept funny. We drove right past our hotel to go straight to angkor wat to see the sun set. WOW. After that it was time to go back to our new hotel.

We were greeted with please sit down, and then cold towels, tea, and fruit, then they gave us some info about the hotel... It was an amazing hotel. After unpacking for the night we went to the night market. There were SO many bugs. There was a ton of stuff in this market, the most popular thing was jewelry and the fish massage. I bought my family some suveniers and was on my way. We drove back to the hotel, ate, and then passed out.

We have an early morning tomorow, 5:00 am departure to see sunrise on angkor wat!