Temples, temples, temples. Siem Reap, Cambodia is stock full of old temples, and much larger, older and more impressive temples than any of the ones we have seen in Thailand or anywhere else. We arrived in Siem Reap rather late in the evening, but we were welcomed by our guide, Superman himself (Professor Vudthy, who escaped from the Khmer Rouge’s Genocide Regime in 1979 after losing a finger and an eye while being ‘interrogated’ and almost lost a leg from a land mine, and since has played a huge part in Cambodia’s reconstruction after the war and has adopted 26 needy children in addition to his five biological children), and a nice dinner in the Night Market near the city. On our first day we visited Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. Angkor Wat is the most
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