Up at quarter past five this morning - quarter past five! - to try and watch sunrise over Angkor Wat. We miss it, but at that time in the morning the mood is pretty special. We take a few photos and get to know our guide - Phaaline (maybe?). Back at the hotel for breakfast and a nap, then straight to Angkor Wat again for a day of exploration.
I see an elephant and feed him some bananas. His trunk has shocking dexterity.
The temples are huge and numerous, and have very cool decorations - lots of stone relief depicting religious and historical events. There are lots of huge faces carved into the stone high up in the air and tonnes of Buddhas just sitting around. We see a temple which featured in a Tomb Raider film, which has trees growing out of the stone (not literally, there's a very complicated roots system going on).
About half the tour leave for the hotel, and the rest of us continue exploring. By this point the heavens have been open for about an hour, and we scurry about in warm but torrential rain getting soaked to the skin. It is brilliant.
In the evening a few of us sit round a "Dr Fish" pool - a small pool full of fish who seem to adore dead skin. We put our feet in and the industrious tiny fellows duly munch away on them. It tickles unbelievably at first, but is very entertaining. A few drinks later I head back to the hotel.
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