Today we got up around 7am and went to the top floor of the hotel to have breakfast .After everyone finished their breakfast we left on the bus at 8:30am to go and see the Angkor Wat temple complex. The Temples are currently being restored section by section but they were still pretty amazing to take pictures of and venture inside. There were brilliant reliefs engraved into the walls of them. There was so much effort and time put into the pictures and so many stories behind each relief. One of the temples we saw was 900 years old. They were all so big and had amazing architecture which fascinated a lot of us. The never ending Cambodian heat competed with some of our energy levels. It was as if we were hiking through a desert.
After we finished looking at some of the temples for the day we went back to the hotel to have lunch and relax. The majority of students took the chance to grab lunch at the local markets, while stocking up with some extra munchies for later.
After lunch we got on the bus to go see the rest of the Angkor Wat temples (Bayon). One of the temples we saw was 42 metres in height. However, the place was really crowded which made it hard to move around but helped to show the significance of the temple we were so fortunate to see. Throughout the temples the magnificent design revealed how they used a combination of rocks to make one section of the temple such as the eye of a statue.
It took 2 hours to walk around one of the temples. It was very exhausting in the humid and sticky heat. By the end of the 3km walk around the complex everyone was dusty, hot and tired. However, it was a definitely worth it!!!!
Returning to the hotel everyone was looking forward to having a swim and relax before going out again for dinner via tuk tuk. With a variety of restaurants to choose from my friends( all twelve of us) and I settled for Mexican. Whilst there we decided it would be funny to sing happy birthday to Rachael Waine (even though its not her birthday) many of the other customers joined in to wish her the best of wishes on her special day. With some spare time a handful of the boys and Farbia payed three dollars to have their feet massaged by fish, as disgusting as it sounds apparently it was good. The rest of us (the normal ones) went shopping at the local markets where we bought some pretty dresses.
Tomorrow we look forward to a relaxing sleep in and the opportunity to work on our preparation for our school lessons,
Britney Dumughn
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