Day 1
We arrived on the overnight bus from Phnom Penh at 5:00am on the 19th. Didn’t sleep very well-woke up around 1am. Took a tuk-tuk to our accommodation, Seven Candles. The gates were closed but the tuk-tuk driver yelled in Khmer (language Cambodians speak)and someone came and opened the gates. We checked into our rooms (fortunately they were ready) and by 5:45 everyone was asleep. At around 8am we woke up and had breakfast. We went for a wander around for a little bit and then came back and swam for a little bit at Frangipani Villas because Seven Candles didn’t have a pool.
Day 2
On the second day at Siem Reap we went to Angkor. Our guide was called Bunrith. We went to the amazing Angkor Wat which is the biggest religious structure in the world. Angkor Wat is the building depicted on the Cambodian flag. It was built a Hindu structure. It is sooo cool or, as Dad would say, grandma undies waving cool. There is a mural on one wall depicting three levels. The bottom level is Hell, the middle the court of judgement and the top is Heaven. The next temple we went to was the Temple of Lunch but you all know what I mean so I don’t need to go into that. After that we went to The Bayon in Angkor Thom. The Bayon used to have 54 towers each with 4 faces. That means there used to be 216 faces but now there are 37 towers equaling 148 faces. Some are sad, some are happy, some have parts of their face missing, one even has plants growing out of it! After the Bayon we went and saw Ta Prohm which-unlike any of the other temples- has been left to the jungle. It is the site of some of the filming from the movie Tomb Raider. We then went back to Siem Reap and stayed at our accommodation for a while before setting out for dinner and the night markets. At the night markets Cade, Luke and I got a foot massage from some sucker fish. It was very funny watching Luke laughing when a fish was nibbling his foot. After the night markets we went back to Seven Candles and went to bed.
Day 3
Yesterday we did a pottery class in the morning. I really liked making the pots and I made one all by myself. We got to carve on the pots as well. We got a sheet with some patterns that were called Kbach. I really liked carving into the pots. After the pottery class we went to Artisans of Angkor and saw some artist making pictures and carvings l. They were very impressive and good. That night we went to the circus and it was AMAZING. It was so good! At nine the show finished and we went back to our accommodation in a tuk-tuk.