Life inside the Temples....Day Three

"Quick let's get out of here before they find out."

I said this when i was quite drunk the night before.

At the end of my last posting i mentioned an experiment and here was my theory. Have a couple of drinks before bed and that will make us very tired and therefore get to sleep earlier (around 9 p.m.) therefore have a better nights sleep for when we have to wake up in the morning. Great in theory but i was drunk for the first time on our holiday at 11.30pm having a light le chuck off the side of our guest house.

The previous nights events started when i had my two drinks and Sab had hers. There were a group of people from Seattle on the table next to us and Sab and I like talking to Americans because we love to show off all our knowledge about America and make them feel like crap for not knowing who was Australias first Prime Minister was (it was Edmund Barton in 1901) or naming any of the major football teams in Australia like we can for American teams. GO SEAHAWKS!!

A few more drinks and some air guitar work to Dire Straits "Best Of..." Album and Sab and I were working beautifully then it all went downhill after Sabs introduction of tequlia. Sabs funny when it comes to tequila. She often talks about how horrible it is but when she is having a good session she won't hesitate to visit that well again. I don't like tequila (and later on when i told her this she said that i was a "wuss") but i drank it anyway and i was gone...

I'm pretty sure that CD i'm holding is "The Best of U2" I'm not too sure though.

After our dinner and drinks bill came and it only amounted to $3 US i was convinced that we had struck gold. "Quick let's get out of here before they find out." I was out of there as quick as a flash only to find our guest house had locked the gate and we couldn't get in. What happens if they find out? We will be forced to admit the error and wash dishes for six weeks! Then again all they had to do was stick thier head out the front as our guest house was only two doors up from the restaurant so my well planned getaway was pretty pissy in hindsight. Tequila does bad things to you.

The next morning i remembered we paid our bill and then had another couple of drinks and that explains the $3US bill.

After the chuck at 11.30 i found that i did get some sleep and found that i did get up at 4.30 a.m with a hangover so our experiment worked..and failed.

When you are in the back of a tuk-tuk at 4.30 in the morning on the way to Angkor Wat you should be pretty excited but i just wanted to get this jackhammer off my head and get back into bed. When we finally made our way to the front of Angkor i was amazed by the sight of this place. It is massive and being there in person you can appreciate the scale of this structure. As we walked inside and first saw those five towers shoot upward towards the night sky, a feeling of calm and majesty fell over the place. As the sun rose the number of people streaming in accelerated and it was by far one of the most amazing experiences of my life even though i was hungover in the process. None of my photos turned out very well but i still have the memories and thats enough for me.

Angkor Wat during a mediocre sunrise - It still has a pull over your senses

On further exploration of Angkor Wat you could gain a better understanding of the detailing and beauty of this temple. The builders of these temples were so precise and delicate in their designs that even with modern technology it would take decades to construct a temple such as this. With more wandering around completed it was a fantastic way to say farewell to two and a half days of temple exploration. I would love to get back to Angkor Wat during the dry season and have the chance again to see it on a beautiful sunny day but if i don't then i won't complain.

The ride back to our guest house was bumpy but as soon as we got there we were straight back into bed. We had a 12.30 bus ride to Phenom Phen and with that taking about 6 hours it wasn't the best day to be hungover. The bus ride itself was pretty good as was the street food that helped clear up the hangover quite well. Making our way into the capital of Cambodia i was filled with a sense of excitement and a little fear as coming from the majesty of Angkor and the Khmer Empire, we were heading into the heartland of the nightmare that was Phenom Phen and the madness that was the Khmer Rouge.