My girlfriend Andrea and I are in Siem Reap, Cambodia, having arrived late last night via Vancouver and Shanghai.
We landed at 22:00, got our visas ($30 USD, on arrival) and luggage and were outside in less than an hour. Our hotel, Two Dragons Guesthouse, picked us up in a tuk-tuk at the airport and drove us the half hour or so to the guesthouse.
Our room is nice enough, and only $15 a night. Thankfully, it has fairly good air conditioning that is also quiet enough to let us sleep. It also has this interesting sign on the door:
Downstairs, they have a great outdoor patio, with fans to keep the heat at bay, and large aquariums full of fish.
We ate breakfast there, before renting bikes ($3 for two!) and cycling up to Angor Wat. The bicycles were in the worst shape of any I have ever encountered that were still capable of being ridden. Mine, for example, had no rear brake, and Andrea's seat was missing a large piece. In fact, although most bikes around here are in rough shape, I'm not sure I've seen any others as rough as these ones. So although they were a great deal, they were a challenge to work with!
Nonetheless, we did about a 25 km ride this morning, past Angor Wat itself, and spent most of our time inside the Angor Thom compound.
We also saw some monkeys!
We had to call it a day and head back into town because of the heat and hunger, and we made it back for 13:00. Now we're eating curries on our patio, plotting out our itinerary for tomorrow, which will include tour by tuk-tuk starting out with sunrise at Angkor Wat.
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