Angkor Wat (wait, what?)

Well, yesterday I went to see Angkor- the center of temples located 8 KM from Siem Reap. It wasn't quite as I expected it to be, but it was lovely. Photos to come- once I make peace with what for reason is called "High Tech". God, it keeps getting worst. Gevult.
Anyway Sarit, Ayelet and myself had a Tuk Tuk driver (the most common way to get around seeing it's huge)- a very funny guy named Meth.
We got to see the Angkor Wat (what?)- the famous temple which is can also be found on the national flag of the Cambodia kingdom, and Angkor Tom, and even the place where Tomb Reider movie was shot. Yep, if it's good for Angelina, it's also good for me. Right.
The whole day was rather exhausting- by 16:00 we gave up and headed back to Siem Reap (which by the way, means Thai losers. Honestly. Isn't that just hilarious?)- so we didn't get to see the sunset.
At evening, we were reminded we are in south east Asia- the power went off for like an hour, in dead heat....I am getting used to it by now.

Today Sarit and Ayelet took off, so I was on my own again. I went to a place were they train blind people to give massages- it was awesome and worth every cent (and it was damn cheap). oh, it was fantastic.
Tomorrow I will be heading back to Phenom Penh.... Yipi...

Cambodia- Angkor What?

So here I am in Cambodia, after Two days of long rides, one killing field and quite a few temples.

I arrived in Phenom Penh on Friday afternoon, settled in the guest house and along with Ayelet and Sarit, two girls I met on the bus, went to the Killing fields. I must admit I fell like such an ignorant- I knew nothing of what was going on here only 20 years ago. In two sentences, in favor of those who have no idea what I am referring to- in the mid 80's, after Vitenam backed out of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, a guerrilla movement terrorized the country in a similar way to Chairman Mao- they executed almost 2 million people (!)- mostly foreigners or people who were suspected to be high educated (for example- people with eye glasses) after torturing them in camps. Today, one of the largerst evidence, minus the horrible economic situation, is the killing fields, where one can see mass graves and, quite horrifying, a huge monument made with real human skulls.

After being there we got back to Phenom Penh (rumor has it it's a capital. No real evidence for that;-)), and went to check out the riverside.. quite nice.

In general, there is quite a resemblance between Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos- or as they would say- "Same same but different". The local currency in the Real but hell, who am I kidding? it's US Dollars. They are by far more used than the Real.

Yesterday we left Phenom Penh in favor of Siem Reap- which caught me by surprise. It seemed at first to be a real dump, but turned out to be a very touristic and cool town. Of course, the only reason for that is the fact it is located 8 km from Angkor Wat- the ancient temple center, which is also where I am heading to tomorrow.

After wandering around town for a while I ran into a friend- an Irish guy named Owen and we went to drink with two British girls we both knew from different places. It was nice, but man, drinking with 3 British really tested my abilitly to think straight.

Anyway tomorrow we are going to spent the entire day in Angkor. I really hope it's going to be good.