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Published: July 26th 2006
Yes!!! the day had finally come to immerse ourselves completely in ancient and revered rock and rubble...the time to crawl out of bed at 4am..the time to realise that because the day is breaking behind the cover of very slight cloud we won't see the epic 'sunrise over Angkor'...but also a time to realise that 10 minutes after sunrise is also a pretty beautiful time to be around...and a time for jumping on that 'sunrise' bandwagon to pass...
so..on with the day!! began by recording a 'happy birthday Kips' video in front of Angkor which everyone around the peaceful (before we got there..) lake thought was hilarious...a little white girl talking and blowing kisses to a camera at 6am...Angkor draws all sorts obviously...
And then we set off..this time as a four...Me, Ruth, Domi and Davin, Ruth's friend from last time that is now working as a tour guide in Siem Reap and who wowed us throughout the day not only with his temple expertise but also his penchant for serenading us with Khmer love ballads ('Take me to your heart!' and 'Hold me for a while' being favourites).
So..again...no long descriptions but between me stopping in every
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Angkor WatT-shirt shop (i bought a record 5 of the amazingly kitch yet functional Ts/Vests) we visited Angkor (yeah, we heard you!), walked around Angkor Thom (the Old City), Ta Prohm (and it is here that I found my kindred spirit that is the babe Lara Croft emerging...alongside getting shat on by a bird whilst posing as afore mentioned icon...and thanks to my instinct to shriek at these kinds of events, EVERYONE saw! ohhh...good luck i guess!), Bayon (with the many many serene and slightly eery faces), the elephant terrace and the Leper King's Terrace...as well as short soujourns off to secret little temples and areas that Davin had kept especially for us...there were so many times it was just us around and it was so easy to slip off into day dreams of 'back in the day'...
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