Siem Reap Days 1 and 2

Dad and I are taking a couple days to visit the town of Siem Reap. Most of the pictures of temples that you see when you Google Cambodia are around here. Yesterday we took a car up to our hotel and then spent the afternoon wandering the city. Rhonda had recommended that we try a restaurant called The Blue Pumpkin, which serves ice cream and pastries. They had a room on the third floor called the Cool Lounge, which was air conditioned and had the longest couch I have ever seen.

Hanging out on the couch in the Cool Lounge!

After that we headed for the market. I love being able to haggle for things! The trick I'm learning is not to show too much interest in what you are about to buy. I am starting to treat the market as an acting exercise.

The next day, (which was yesterday because I gave up in the middle of writing this post and went to sleep) we hired a tuk tuk to take us around to some of the temples. My favorite was Ta Prom, which was almost completely in ruin. Trees were growing over it, and many of the walls had fallen down. Dad said that it looked like the temple had sneezed and the walls came down.

Tree growing over the temple

The giant sneeze

Dad keeps photobombing.

Took some time out from seeing the temples to have lunch. Beef with Bell Peppers and Pork with Holy Basil.

I took a lot more pictures at the temples, which you can find on my Facebook profile under Temple Pics.

After the temples I was exhausted because we had walked several miles. We went back to the hoel to rest and eat Oreos, them went back to the market. They have some pretty cool stuff and I got to work on my haggling.I am definitely a girl who loves her shopping!

One of the stalls at the market.

That's about it for right now. Tomorrow Dad and I are going to try the zip line! (Which we actually have already done, because I'm lazy and didn't upload this when I meant to. It was awesome! But that is for my next post.)