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I got back into Thailand, and met up with Nat. We immediately ventured forth to the Cambodia border.
The magic casino bus
Getting to Siam Reap turned out to be quite the adventure. First off, Nat wanted to take the "Casino Bus". Gambling is quite illegal in Thailand. Fortunately for the hard core, Cambodia (the SE Asian equivalent of the Wild West) is only a few short hours away. The big casinos run a shuttle bus from several locations in Bangkok to the border for practiaclly nothing. The only trick is that these buses are pseudo illegal. I think. In any case, it took us a long time to find the stop. We finally did, and managed to get to the border without incident. I think we were supposed to pretend like we were hard core gamblers, which was tough with our big bags and all.
The longest 50 feet of my life
The border crossing took about a million years. Or at least 2 solid hours. To travel 50 feet in line. It was quite possibly the most frustrating thing ever. At one point, a fight almost broke out between a really fiesty old lady and
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"Between the pictures and the verbose text, this could be my longest entry to date. Sorry about that". Dont be sorry!. Loved hearing about your travels and you made me laugh out loud a few times. Outstanding pictures. Thank you for sharing. - hailrain
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A real man's jigsaw puzzle
So check this - A French team of archeologists painstakingly take apart one of the larger temples, carefully recording where each piece fits into the larger puzzle. Then blamo - civil war happens. A... [more]
Indiana Jones time
Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider, and a few other movies in the same genre were apparently filmed some of the temples near Angkor.
Cool looking burial ground
Some royal person's remains. The cool thing about a lot of these inner chambers is that they are in a tall vertical column that is open to the sky. Around noon-time you see very impressive lighting ... [more]
Structural Strengthener
I wasn't sure if this thing was holding up the whole temple, or just an indicator of where we shouldn't go. Some of these places looked pretty darn close to collapse, so ya never know...
Probing for dirt
Here's a wayward tree limb, searching for the ground. Maybe in another 100 years, kiddo.
Rolling out the red carpet
Most of the temples had entrances that looked like this. A "Welcome" mat does the trick for me.
More doors
Here is another example of the many, many doors. Nat serves as a reference point to define the perspective.
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April 20th 2005 - :
"Between the pictures and the verbose text, this could be my longest entry to date. Sorry about that". Dont be sorry!. Loved hearing about your travels and you made me laugh out loud a few times. Outstanding pictures. Thank you for sharing. - hailrain
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