Siem Reap/Angkor Wat, Cambodia

We finally were able to make it to Cambodia.  Even though it was a quick 1 hour flight, we just didn't get around to making plans until this April to head next door.  The country, people and culture was just beautiful.  Cambodian's have been thru so much in their country with the Khmer Rouge killing 1 in every 4 Cambodians from 1975-1979, and still the people we encountered were happy and friendly.
    With our short time there we explored the Angkor Wat Complex and Beyond, drank good cheap local beer, ate great food, got massages and relaxed.

First stop was getting our Tuk Tuk driver.

 Sunrise at Angkor Wat.  Angkor Wat was constructed in the early 12th century and is the largest religious monument in the world.  The Construction of Angkor Wat involved 300,000 workers and 6,000 elephants, yet it was still not fully completed. 

          Below are pictures of Angkor Tom/Bayon, which you will see has faces carved into the rock.  It stands directly in the center of the Angkor Wat complex and represents, in Hinduism,  the intersection of Heaven and Earth.There are over 200 carved stone faces that are of the king at the time in 1886 AD.
  This was were Tomb Raider was filmed and you can really see why when you arrive.

Ta Som and Ta Prohm are temples that are taken over by nature.

Preah Khan was the last one for our first day as it was getting really really hot and were were exhausted from going all day long. Preah Khan is north of the Angkor Wat complex.

Day 2 was spend on a long......long....TukTuk Ride to a temple 60Km outside of Siem Reap. On our drive we saw the amazing beauty of Cambodia and its people.

This temples name is Being Mealea and we were able to climb all around this temple, exploring every place that we could.

At the days end we enjoyed walking around Pub Street in Siem Reap enjoying their yummy food, cheap massages( cheaper than Thailand) and beer for 50cents.