Angkor Wat
We left Phnom Penh behind and took a bus to Siem Reap, the city where we found Angkor the capital city of the Khmer-Kingdom from 9th century until the 14th century. Angkor is one of the best activated places in the world and had sustain old and recent wars.
When we arrived, we couldn’t believe our eyes, the capital city was distinguished. It was so large, that we had to hire a jeep to see the whole place. Like you can see at the picture of Angkor Wat, the whole place was surrounded by water to protect the city from enemies. We had the chance to make a boot trip around the city, in the meantime a guide told us the history of the temple. He even told us a legend about the gods. Unfortunately we couldn’t see everything because laborers were renovating the building. We only visited the access of the building. We were a bit disappointed because we saw an interesting documentary of the building and we craved to see the building from the inside.
Believe it or not but we made friends with one of laborers. He told us some things about the beautiful building. We even were allowed to take a look with him. We only had to swear we would never tell someone that we had visit the forbidden places. It was marvelous.
We left Angkor Wat and took a bus to our hotel in a local city. When we arrived the weather wasn’t so beautiful anymore. A lot of clouds covered up the blue sky and it started to rain. Although the weather was bad, it was really refreshing and we did a rain dance with the local people!
Iadios!
Eline
Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkyQO4axJxE