The Temples of Angkor are one of the seven wonders of the world and are one of the most famous world heritage sites. For budgetting reasons and the fact that both of us feel there are only so many temples someone can appreciate in one day we decide to buy a one day pass! We are up at five am and our Tuk-tuk driver takes us to Angkor Wat for sunrise...a lot of other tourists have the same idea (unsuprisingly) and we are really unlucky as its very cloudy so it wasnt a great sunrise! I'm impressed by Angkor Wat purely because of its age but i wouldnt say it made me think WOW!
We then visited the citied wall of Angkor Thom....which includes a few temples as well as the elephant bridge and Lepar King temple. I personally felt that Angkor Thom was better than Angkor Wat.....don't know if thats traveller blasphomy or not? lol!
Lastly we visited the tree temple. This really had the wow factor! Giant trees with even bigger roots shooting straight through the middle of the temples perfectly highlighting the temples age! This was a real plus point on the tour.
Overall it was good....however i dont really understand how people can spend three days here! I think i might get really templed out by then!
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