Ah, the temples of Angkor. This was something I have been looking forward to since the conception of our journey. Krista, having been here once before, filled my head with her descriptions and recollections of the place. Rising at quarter to five in the morning, well before sunrise, we met up with a tuk-tuk driver we had prearranged to meet us the day before. Off we go, in the crisp air of the early morning, a breeze and the putter of the tuk-tuk tapping at our senses. It was a decently short ride and, though I should not have been surprised, we were not alone. There were other tourists in tuk-tuks headed the same way, for the same thing. Unlike the majority of them, however, we did not spend our first sunrise at the main spectacle
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