The temples of Angkor Wat

Finally in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) after spending two days in Siem Reap, to see the reputable temples of Angkor Wat. We stayed at a lovely guesthouse in the centre of Siem Reap, cheap and outstanding service from the Cambodian family running it. They took great interest in helping us with every enquiry we had and also arranged for a  tuk-tuk to drive us around the temple area (that turned out to be HUGE!). The first day we spent about 8 hours exploring the main part of the temples. We took millions of photos, climbed the steepest stairscases ever seen and was mainly just fascinated about the ages of it all, being about 1000 years old.

The second day started early with watching the sunrise over Angkor Wat, something that everybody seem to recommend and that everybody seemed to do. Together with a few houndred other tourists we watched the sun come up over Angkor, beautiful is not enough to explain it. The rest of the day was spent with our tuk tuk driver Chu and we visited even more of the temples. 

If it wasn't for the stiffling heat and lack of whiffs (and the fact that due to religious reasons, women had to wear long-sleeved shirts and something covering the knees, stockings in our case...) we could have enjoyed a few more days walking around the Angkor Wat. But for now, we are satisfied temple wise and left Siem Reap happy to move on to the next stop.

One thing worth mentioning about Cambodia and especially Siem Reap is the merchants that seemed to be appearing from nowhere trying to sell all kinds of unnessesary gadgets. A normal conversation that occured about 20 times daily could sound like this:
"Lady, you buy bracelet"
"No, thank you"
"Lady, you want to buy bracelet"
"No, Thank you"
"Lady, You can buy bracelet"
"No, Thank you"
"Lady, 10 for 1 dollar"
"No, Thanks I'm good"
"Lady, one, two, three, four, five six seven, eight, nine, ten for 1 dollar"
"No"
"Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, for 1 dollar"
"No"
"Okey, but you buy later, yeah?"
"No"
"Lady, when you buy later you come to me right?"
"NO!!!"

Not exaggerating.