Cambodia

After flying from Bangkok to Phnom Penh, we rode on the back of motorcycles to the center of town where we caught a "cab" (translation: man with a car who needed some extra cash and was willing to drive to Siem Reap with 4 foreigners though he didn't know a lick of English) and took a 4 hour drive through the rice paddies and houses on stilts, bicycling school kids, family haystacks competing to see which was the highest and/or most originally shaped, school yards with bicycle "parking lots" looking like the police impound lot for stolen bikes. Our first order of business when we arrived in Siem Reap was to check in to our guesthouse and get the lay of the land. We grabbed a quick fruit shake (so yummy in Asia!) and lined up a tuk-tuk driver, Waa, to take us to Angkor Wat for the raved about viewing of the sunset. All that said, the temple was amazing, but the sunset was not all that. We did come back a couple days later to see the sun rise there which also was nothing to write home about, but our visits to other places that morning more than made up for it. So, here it is - Siem Reap and Angkor Wat, Cambodia.