Cambodia - Siem Reap and Angkor - Day 241 (20,273 miles)

We arrived in Siem Reap the town closest to the ancient city of Angkor with 7 days set aside to 'do it slowly'. The number of and area covered by temples is huge and in the current warm humid weather the last thing we wanted to do was rush around.

We had also decided not to attempt to get the bike into the area known as the Angkor Archaeological Park, some people manage to do it and others are stopped by the Police. We preferred to travel around by tuk tuk in lightweight clothing and not worry about where we could leave our bike and gear.

The downside is we don't have any photo's of the bike with the Angkor backdrop.

We bought 3 day entrance passes and managed to get up for a sunrise on day 2, this photo was taken at about 5.30 am. We could claim that it was us alone on the edge of the lake sharing this magical moment but anyone who's been there will know this is a big fat fib.......................

Here are a few of the others that shared it with us!

Over the 3 days we visited 16 temples it's a magical place. Below is a very small selection of the hundreds of photos we took, there isn't a comment against each one as it's possible you would be asleep with your head on the keyboard long before you reach the end and if you're reading this at work that could be somewhat career limiting.

I wish this escalator was working!

2pm on day 1, John suffers from the onset of temple fatigue.

It was hard to resist buying even when we didn't want stuff, the kids were so happy and polite.

After some monsoon rainfall in Siem Reap the river was teeming with a particular type of small fish that the locals love to eat. Every man and his dog were out fishing.

We enjoyed Siem Reap it's a pretty little city and serves the tourists that visit Angkor well with plenty of places to eat drink and shop.

We went to a free concert that is given every Saturday by Dr Beat Richner a pretty amazing Swiss Paediatrician who runs several children's hospitals in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. 10% of the funding needed is provided by the Swiss government and a few more % by the Cambodian government but the rest is all donations. He and the hospital staff provide an amazing standard of free health care, quite inspirational.

Bye for now Jane and John xxxxxxxxxxxx