Angkor at Last

At last we have made it to Angkor and have spent the last 2 days visiting the temples. The whole "site" is enormous and probably covers 100 square miles. Within this, there are dozens of temples. The place is breathtaking in its magnitude, architecture and style. Here is just a teeny tiny bit of Angkor Wat just down the side of one of the side bits near the back of the temple. It takes 45 minutes just to walk across the moat and to get to here through all the monuments.

Here's a quick pic of The Bayon, this being thetemple that everyone knows with all the faces. There are 54 towers in all, each tower having 4 faces. The whole place is hauntingly surreal and you cannot believe that its creators weren't on something stronger than beer!

We see about 4 temples a day, 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening. By about 4pm, we're hot, sticky and exhausted - and this is the dry winter season. God knows what its like in the raining season when its even hotter!

So, please check out the photos which can be found at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/r1ch

And I'll pop a few more blog entries directly from flickr that might give you a flavour of how we're getting on.