behold, the temples of angkor!

so im back in phnom penh now and im leaving first thing in the morning for my loooong journey to tokyo and miss joolia! i think i'll be flying/parking my ass in various airports for over 24 hours so that should be thrilling. anyway im just getting some photos burned onto cds right now and i've had like no time to post photos/cambodian computers hate me and wont cooperate but finally it's working so now im gonna put up a half-assed post with just pictures cause im lazy.

our jungle cruise from battambang to siem reap:
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more of our scenic cruise: the best toilet of all time. peeing in a hole right into the river where people bathe and brush their teeth! what could be more hygenic?


all along the boat ride kids would wave like mad at us and shout hello!!!! all the cool kids are doing it.

ok so we did 3 days at the temple of angkor but fuck it, i dont remember the names of all the temples we went to sooooo here are just a whackload of pictures. this one for sure though is the famous angkor wat. and at sunrise too! were such heroes.

ok but really im sorry that this post does zero justice to the temples cause really they were absolutely amazing. no sarcasm either, really really fantastic; everyone needs to go to angkor wat! do it now! i think i took exactly 2.3 million pictures. at least a thousand anwyay. however i dont have time to post all of them due to obvious reasons but here's a few. they're not even the best ones cause im no joke half-assing this all the way today but you get the jist. just look at the pictures and then imagine the temples being 100x more impressive in real life. anyway i want to go on and on about the temples but right now im not feeling so hot (well im hot, but in a sweaty yucky way) so please google that shit or something and check it out.

me (and ed in the background)sitting up in angkor wat. we spent a few hours there i think and it was awesome. (by the way, i got my hair cut yet again here in cambodia and i just noticed it looks like i practically have no hair left in this picture. im so attractive)


more of the crazy impressive angkor wat:

ta promh: this was i think the most fun temple and also the one where tomb raider 1 was filmed. it was just like the jungle was overtaking the temple and it just looked mad and ruined but in the best way possible.



so im just gonna go ahead and estimate that it was like 60C out there at the temples cause dammit we were sweating like mad. it would be 8 am and already we'd be sweating. (it was probably more like 40C. i have no idea) anyway the heat was seriously borderline unbearable and we were basically reduced to looking like this:(by the way, those scarfs are calld...shit i dont remember. kramas? something like that and everyone wears them here in cambodia. on their heads, around their necks, as a face mask, etc etc. again, all the cool kids are doing it.)


me and ed at the elephant terrace. or something like that. and note the funky head gear!:

i also loved this temple, we went twice cause the first time we went we were hungover due to the swedes going-away party plus we rolled into the joint at like 11 am which is peak sweat time. it really was super stupid. but anyway its called bayon and has 50something towers that have four faces on each and it just looks really cool. here we are the 2nd time around at sunrise.



that day, the third day we were crazy impressive cause we did a seriously full day at angkor wat; from sunrise to sunset. we had sunrise at bayon and then up on a big ass hill near angkor wat for sunset. we also ran into pretty fernie from china beach by coincidence so he spent the day with us and it was lovely. us at...a bunch of temples (and im totally losing momentum here so really there isnt a shitload of pics like i said. im sorry but i lied):





oh and this is my favourite kiddie in all of the kingdom. we met her at one of the temples and she was just the cutest little thing ever. she'd try and pout and sound all weepy to sell us shit but then she'd just crack herself up and laugh. she'd also count from 1-10 in a variety of languages. we just hung around with a bunch of kids for a good half hour and i ended up paying her a dollar to buy her a 7-up, thats how cute this kid was.


anyway, im seriously embarassed with how shit this post is since im posting about one of the most amazing places ive been to so far but it cant be helped. the temples were amaaaaazing and you'll just have to take my word for it.