Jakey Jake

Friday 19th March
today sucked, an 8 hour bus trip taking almost 10 hours due to having 2 flat tyres (we swapped busses in between the flats, luckily). somewhere between Seam Reip and Phenom Phen was a nice little village that had a few loudspeakers beside the road as well as a shop and some shaded seating that looked after us for a bit over an hour. Finally we arrived in Siem Reap, checked in to our hotels and freshened up from the 40 degree day. Then it was on the bus again, this time only for 8kms to Angkor, to see one of the wonders of the world. we passed by angkor wat to a small hill in the middle of angkor, Phnom Bakheng, which was esepecially good to see most of angkor from as well as to catch the sunset. There was a big climb to the top of it or you could hop on an elephant for 10 bucks, I just walked. Id never seen elephants up close like that before, they are pretty amazing looking creatures. Well the sunset wasnt so crash hot, it was too smoggy, so we went back to the hotel and had dinner and went to bed for an early start in the morning.