Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Angkor Wat by tuk tuk

Started at 8am with Tony we visited the Angkor Thom structure which has inside of it many different temples and various terraces. The biggest of these being Bayon. This temple is covered with faces that they think are a combination of the king and a depiction of god. The king blended his features with that of the Buddha to show how he himself was a descendent from the gods. Immense, Ainhoa crying about it all.blah blah, then we went to some other ones and then had lunch at ZTony's sisters restaurant. I had some fish and rice and it was very good. Then we experienced our first taste of Cambodian rain. We only have one umbrella between us so most of our time was spent huddling together as Ainhoa shot photos of everything she saw. Went to a few more, one I liked best was the jungle looking one, it rained but it was still nice because it was warm and the stones were releasing a nice heat as the rain cooled them. Tony asked if I would marry him while at lunch and said he'd like Cambodian babies, said I could stay with his mom and we could all be very happy. We ended at Thamonomon where Ainhoa fell in love with some apsaras and so took a very long time, I went and waited for her in the tuk tuk as it was raining slightly still. Tony and I talked about how he felt about Cambodia now versus the Cambodia he grew up in. People here seem very excited about the future of the country. The man who greeted us at the border told us many Cambodians have to go to Thailand or Vietnam or China to get work, but not for long he said. In a few years they will all come back and have jobs here he kept saying. Tony said he liked his government now, that it was much better. He told me about his childhood, how his father died when he was 13 and he was pretty much homeless after that, living with friends. He's 31 now and his father dies in 1993. I didn't want to go into how he died, but from everything I have learned that was a pretty bloody year so it's very possible he was killed. Tony started to tear a bit when telling me this, he looked away and we saw two lady boys coming up towards the temple. He started to laugh and pointed saying 'gay'. He asked if we wanted to go to a discotheque but we said no we were getting up early tomorrow so maybe another time. We had dinner at the hotel and it was super good! Curry of course... what else?

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