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Bigggg Update

Okay so I have a few minutes finlly to update you all with what I've been up to the last few days. I've been crazy busy everyday and having an awsome time here, there are a bunch of downsides but I'm making the best of it and loving it. So Seb and I wrote down a pointform list of what we have done the last few days and I'm feeling pretty lazy so I'm not going to write it all out in detail.

Mon Jan 10th - Arrive Siem Reap @ 12:30 / meet Seb & Peiter while departing the plane / go Guest House hunting, ending up at New Millenum sharing a room with Peiter / Went for a walk through the market / Went for a hot air balloon ride @ 5:30 to see Angkor Wat for the first time (WOW) / Had a drink with the Tuk Tuk driver listening to Cambodian history and his personal experences (lost an eye & best friend to a bomb / lost his father and counsins) / Went for dinner at the Ivy bar and ate some Khemar food / Feed the children begging for money our left overs

Tues Jan 11th - Thon LeSup Lake for boat tour to Floating Village (So many poor children begging from little boats) / Lunch @ a Cambodian Restaurant / Swimming @ Khemara Hotel (sooo nice but cost more then my room) / Sunset over Angkor Wat from hill 1 km away / Dinner at tourist restaurant / Foot Massage (ohhh yeah) / Red Piano restaurant/bar for Coffee and Tea / Dirty Cambodia Disco

Wed Jan 12th - Temple tour with Seb / Hair cut & shave & massage Cambodian Style / Dinner with the boys at a new thai restaurant (better phad thai then I had in Thailand) / Back to the Red Piano

Thurs Jan 13th - Sunrise @ Angkor Wat (up at 5am) / Continued temple tour with Seb / Met Peiter at Khemara Hotel for some more swimming/relaxing / Dinner / Picture swaping / Last night at the Red Piano with Peiter / Jogging through Siem Reap @ 12:30 looking for Peiters bag

Fri Jan 14th - Slept in! wooo hooo / Spent the afternoon at Angkor Wat relaxing with Seb and two monks / Watched the Sunset over Angkor Wat from inside / Now I'm here / Going for dinner with Seb / Maybe go back to the Red Piano / Packing my bags

Well thats that, tomorrow I'm off to Phenom Pehn for two days I think and then I'll be making my way down to Sinoukville for the beaches! I think I'll be really busy in Phenom Pehn because there are a bunch of things I'd like to see but I don't really want to stay in the city for too long b/c of the pollution.

So as you can see I wasn't lying when I said I've been really busy and I think it will be that way in Phenom Pehn too but its so much fun and I've been doing/seeing so many amazing things. Part of me wants to write more about the poverty and corruption here but maybe I'll save that for a whole new blog when I'm down in the south.

I just want to write about one of the things I mentioned up there, jogging around last night. When we got back to our room last night I was exhausted since I had been up since 5am so I was going to go to bed but Peiter was leaving this morning so he had to pack his stuff. He wanted to get my email address before I went to be so he went to get his address book out of him backpack but he couldn't find it. He thought he left it at the restaurant where we had dinner so I went with him b/c the streets are the safest by yourself here. As we left one of the motorcycle taxi drivers who worked for our guesthouse and sleeps in the restuarant asked us whats wrong. He came with us to speak to the people and we ran all the way to the restuarant. When we go there the lady couldn't see anything b/c it was dark but didn't think she had it and then Peiter remembered he had it at the internet place where we swapped pictures. So we ran there and luckily there were people still there repainting the walls and they had it. He was so lucky because all of his stuff was in it (passport, plane ticket, visa, etc) I kept telling him to just leave it in the safe at the guest house but he liked to carry it on his person, almost ruined his whole trip.

Well before I go for dinner I'll post a little list of the temples I visited incase you want to look some of them up. I'll put a star beside the ones you must look up first.

Wed Jan 12th
1) Prasat Kravan
2) Banteay Kdei
3) Sras Srang
4) Ta Prohm
5) Ta Keo
6) Thommanon
7) The Bayon ******* (Agkor Thom)
8) Terrace of Elephants (Agkor Thom)
9) Terrace of Leper King (Agkor Thom)
10) Preah Khan
11) Angkor Wat **

Thurs Jan 13th
1) Angkor Wat
2) Neak Pean
3) Ta Som
4) East Mebon
5) Pre Rup

posted by Brandon Share @ 6:30 PM