Made it to siem reap to explore Angkor wat! Such an amazing land of temples. The first day we pedal biked to and around the large loop of temples in the heat of the day for 60 kms total! got our workout for the day... Our friend Julia from Nelson met up with us for the adventure. There is a lot of work being put into restoring the temples as a lot of them have been destroyed in bombings, been beaten down by the weather, and maimed or stolen by humans. Mairi and Keith went to the siem riep museum the day before to learn more about the temples and it was a really nice, large, and informative museum. Mairi found a pottery place where they have kick wheels and you work alongside the Cambodians spinning huge master pieces in minutes! She made a nice little cup and the company glazed and fired it for her and then sent it to the hostel the next day.
We went to see more temples the day after meeting up with some more friends, Eva from Nelson and 2 Aussies, joel and matt, and a German, Chris. This time around we all took a tui tui! We saw tah prohm - the temple where they filmed a lot of the tomb raider movie. The trees are huge and grow all over the temples! Everywhere on all the stones there are amazing carvings of so many different scenes. All the stones were hand carted from 50km away, and most were carved in the 16th century!
Later we found a pool and had some nice cool brews and a chillout from the hot sun. We all had a cambodian BBQ - it's at a restaurant and there are holes in te table where the waiter puts a metal upside down bowl and lights coals underneath. A large piece of lard is put on top to keep the meat from burning and then you pick the meats you want and BBQ them yourself! It came with unlimited rice and veggies/noodle soup. We ordered kangaroo, crocodile, ostrich, frog, and pork.
Kangaroo was a favourite, tasting lean like deer.
Crocodile was a bit like chewy old chicken.. Almost wouldn't be surprised if thats what it really was!
Ostrich turns grey as its cooked and is delicious.
Frog is yummy , have to pick the bones away from the meat. Sorta like a small chicken.
And pork was.. Pork!
Super delicious food....
Mairi and her friend Julia did a Cambodian cooking course and it was pretty good. We did it at the paper tiger cooking school which was a bigger school in siem reap. The course Mairi did in pai, thailand with charlie and leks restaurant was much tastier and enjoyable!!
For Keith's birthday we all hung out and had a mini party in our hostel rooms ( siem reap central hostel was awesome $6 each with air con, and super clean! Thanks for finding it Matt!) for his birthday keith got: snake whiskey, soft lush man undies (he hadn't worn any this whole trip!), a negro doll keychain, and a breast pump. Such nice gifts!!! ;). We went to temple bar after and then made it home for some zzzs.
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