The Adventures of Amy and Omar: Siem Reap & The Temples at Angkor

Siem Reap, the town next to Angkor is a six hour bus ride from Phnom Penh. We arrived in the evening and hired a tuk-tuk (the Cambodian style one with a little two person cart attached to the back of a motorbike) for a tour of six to seven of the temples at Angkor, including the temples within Angkor Thom, a huge walled city (the walls stretch more than 12 km). At the end of a long temple filled day we watched the sunset over Angkor Wat from a temple on a hill. The temples are really magnificent--the size (we spent an hour wandering in and around several of them) and number of them and the beautiful intact statues and carvings and wall reliefs. It was just so cool to wander some of the ruins and to see how nature and the jungle are taking some of the temples back.

The next day we rented bicycles to tour Angkor Wat and a few other temples. We got up at 5am to try and catch the surise at Angkor Wat (we were a little late, but it was still beautiful). We took a ton of pictures--here are a small selection of the temples. Check out the pics of Angkor Wat in a separate post.

Llegamos a Siem Reap, la ciudad base para llegar a Angkor. Angkor es la edificacion religiosa mas grande del mundo. Sus parades fortificando Angkor cubren 12 km de distancia. Alunas de sus edificaciones o ruinas paracen que estan siendo digustadas por enormes arboles y vegetacion de la selva. UNESCO y diferentes paises estan tratando de restaurar gran parte de estos templos.

Recorrimos parte de Angkor en dos dias; el primer dia rentamos un Tuk-tuk con su chofer en la maniana para que nos llevara a los diferentes edificios, recorrimos varios templos hasta que se metio el sol. El segundo dia fuimos en bicicleta y nos levantamos al las 5am para ver el amancer en Angkor Wat. Llegamos un poco tarde, pero alcanzamos parte del amanecer.