On day one of our stay, we sought out Viva Mexican restaurant for $1 tacos and iced margaritas. It's been a long time side I've had decent Mexican. Damn it was good. Topping it off was the 50 cent draught Angkor beers. Quality. SR has 2 incredible markets: the day time 'old' market and the night market. Both were detrimental to my budget. It was hard to resist the crafts and the incredibly friendly and persuasive vendors. Out of all the countries in SE Asia, Cambodians have shown the most kindness, humour and happiness. Unlike in Bangkok, exploring each and every stall was no problem and a dream.
The following day we went to the famous Angkor Wat temple for sunrise. It was glorious, except for the crazy amount of other sunrise seeking photographers. It was a glorious sunrise. We visited the surrounding temples for the rest of the day, hugged a lot of trees (apparently gives you good energy and also feels strangely comforting - and making you look like a prat), and tried to ruin many a Chinese tour groups photographs. So many of them in their bright coloured hats! Oh and I bought this awesome bamboo mouth harp thing, I plan to annoying a lot I people with this.
In the night time we ventured the infamous street 8, better known as Pub Street - one long street of bars and clubs selling 50 cent draught. Our two regulars were Angkor What? (Witty) and the Temple Club outside which we found ourselves doing the cha cha slide with locals in the middle of the street. Shameful I know but bloody fun (after 5 draughts I should mention). I love Siem Reap, would recommend it to anyone. At 12:30 am we had to bored yet another bus to take us to our next stop, Phnom Pehn for our depression fix - The Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge.
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