Wow. Siem Reap was pretty spectacular … and it started with our arrival on our anniversary — check out how they prepared the room for us! (Siem Reap is in Cambodia)
The cake was the final touch … happy birthday! Of course, our room was right by the restaurant and hotel lobby … maybe could have had one a little more private, but it was the thought that counts!
The final touch was this bottle of Bubbly! Thanks Audley Travel for setting us up in style!
This was a full couple of days, so I’m only covering Angkor Wat in this post … I’ll cover the next couple of days in a follow-on post. On Day 26, we joined our guide early for “ticket purchase” and bike fitting to ride to Angkor Wat. Come to find out, our guide had recently had an appendectomy and he wasn’t sure how long he could ride! He still gamely pedaled to Angkor and showed us around the main temple complex. What an incredible place …
This is the hand dug moat … the engineering feat was amazing!
This is a 90-meter long bas relief sculpture … longest in the world. Incredible.
Knowing that Deb and I wanted to complete the ride, our guide called in a substitute (thanks Sinath!) and off we went. We rode around the complex, over to the Ancient City walls riding along the top. What an impressive display. We made our way to a couple of the different gates — even the one used in Tomb Raider.
He gamely led us around the complex and even took us on the “secret trail.” Of course, the secret trail decided it wanted a part of me. As I was riding along, a vine was hanging down, caught around my face and jerked my glasses off. To where I know not. The Secret trail is now the resting place of my transition lens glasses. Thank goodness I brought a spare pair! Here’s the damage inflicted on me!! (You see I had to change to my sunglasses. ….)
Oh, we also saw a couple of cool animals on the ride. Check out this interesting caterpillar!
And here’s a monitor lizard … just a wee one. Fortunately heading away from us!
We finished up our ride, had a late lunch, and headed back to the hotel for a day of relaxation. Ready for the next day’s excursion on the lake!
Stumblingpiper
Monitor lizard!! So cool! What, you didn’t have your glasses on a strap?? 🙂
Then I would have been choked for sure! Haha
Also totally going to call you Debrah and Jaems from now on…