Our guide met us in the hotel lobby (lift still broken), and our bikes were waiting for us outside. The guide took us on a whistle stop tour of the city. We had been scheduled to visit a dancing school in the morning, but a day of mourning had been declared for the Water Festival disaster, so dancing was inappropriate. Instead, we cycled past a number of the important monuments, avoiding the traffic. We cycled past the Royal Palace which we were going to visit that afternoon. After we had done some cycling, and had a short political lecture on government corruption from the guide, we headed to the National Museum of Cambodia. This contains a number of the actual statues from Angkor Wat that have been removed for safe keeping from the temples for safe
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