Back to Angkor (third time)

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We'd arranged to be picked up the next day by the motodriver that had
hassled us all the way from where the bus had dropped us off to our
guesthouse, but that wasn't until 4pm. Had a wander around siam reap, used
the net, off loaded a load of photos onto my portable harddrive, got
attacked by the rain, wandered through the market (all thoughts of bird flu
momentarily forgotten (there are chickens *everywhere*!)), sat in a posh
french cafe and had posh shakes (read same same, twice the price (you pay
for the orchid)). Back at the GH the usual plans to extort more cash from
the tourists began, 'oh we're early, we take you to shop first' yeah......
was fun to see the one girl ring the bell and turn on the lights in this
huge shop and all the girls come running in case we want to buy
something.... we didn't. Overpriced tourist tat! Still the drivers got there
commission, we wasted 5 minutes before we could buy our tickets to one of
the wonders of the world.... everyone happy!

You can buy your tickets the day before and get a free sunset (which is
nice cos it was the only one I was gonna get). We hung around the ticket office
until the alloted time and hit the temples. Didn't have much time, it just
stopped raining as we handed over our $20 so it wasn't gonna be much of a
sunset. We checked out the south gate, nice linked balustrade, with naga's
on the end.... bah, look at the photos, nice, nice, but not very
spectacular. onto the Bayon, everyone's seen it, huge pillars with faces on
all 4 sides. Its a nice temple, one of my faves, still a little run down,
they haven't touched it for a good few years. More wooden walkwalks for the
less agile tourist, same magic. Great place. We basically stayed there
until it was nearly dark and headed back, getting my moneys worth on my new
camera. haven't used it a great deal, kinda worried about it getting nicked
but its paid for itself now I reckon. Nice and small, 5mp, card is big
enough, fits well in your pocket and doesn't look terribly expensive.
had to be up early the next day so didn't want to overdo it, no pizza
adventures that night!!

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