Cambodia - Siem Reap & the Angkor temples

Rather than taking a grueling twelve hour bus ride from Bangkok, Thailand to Siem Reap, Cambodia, we flew. Now that there is only one month left on the trip, we are 'backpackers' in name only. We refuse to eat street food, sleep in unpleasant hotel rooms or take painfully long bus rides. Absolutely no street cred whatsoever.

The temples and palaces of Angkor era, built from the 9th century to the 14th century, are located around Siem Reap. For the first time on this trip, we bought a multi-day entrance ticket. We proudly 'did' Machu-Picchu and Petra each in one day, but there are over 100 Angkor monuments around here.

Angkor Wat:

Bayon temple with 200 carved faces. This was my favorite:

At least a third of tourists here seem to be Korean tour groups. Here are my peeps at Ta Phrom, where Tomb Raider was filmed:

We hired a tuk-tuk for two days to take us around the sights. The driver, Mr. Sotheb Ban, was not impressed with our lazy itinerary of the first day, and took us on the 'grand tour' of his own the second day. Towards the end of the second day, we didn't even get out of the tuk-tuk and took pictures as we drove by.

Gas station for motorcycles - the plastic bottles on the stand are filled with petroleum. Bill claims he will buy a scooter and use it to commute to work when we get back to the US to be more environmentally friendly: