Our last day in Cambodia was spent exploring the wonders of the Angkor temples. There is simply much to much to describe and realy words wont do it justice. Just quickly, we went up the night before for a free sun set view of Angkor Wat (the big one) from a near by temple. In the morning we were there at 5:30am to watch the sun rise from inside Angkor Wat. We were lucky to be some of only a handful of tourist that went inside to see this and we sat at the top floor on the edge of some very steep steps and watched the sunrise in peaceful surroundings. That's about all I'll say about that except... yes we did go to the tomb raider temple and there was a lot a CG effects added, but it was still fun anyway.
We have arrived back in Bangkok and can't believe how different it is here having come from Cambodia which was by far the poorest of the countries we went to. Although officially Vietnam had the lowest income per capita, it is very clear that only the few rich and corrupt people have the money and are not sharing it around. They seem to be in a much more desperate state than the people in their surrounding countries. Everything is expensive for tourists (by South East Asian standards) simply because they need every dollar. The difference can be summed up in our bus trip from Siem Reap to Bangkok. The bus on the Cambodian side was the sort of thing that would have been sent to the wreckers five year ago in Australia. It had a cracked windscreen, broken seats, windows that slowly rattled themselves open and a tyre that had to be pumped up every half hour or so. The road, if you haven't heard is unsealed (left on purpose so you'll pay for the most expensive flight in the region to avoid it) and it took six hours to travel 140km. By this stage everyone was completely covered, inside and out, with dust. It took two hours to get through customs at the border, most of which was on the Cambodian side, and then got on the best bus of our whole trip. It was a fairly new double-decker bus with A/C, T.V. and plenty of leg room. They even cleaned the dust off the bags not wanting to dirty their pristine vehicle. We eventually got in at 9pm very exhausted, but met up with Neil and Alexis and had drinks until 2am.
This is our last post. We we'll see you all soon.
PS HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLIVIA (i meant to put that up yesterday but it wouldn't work!)
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Hello Jackie and Brett, well it's almost time to pack up and leave. Six weeks has gone reasonably quickly. Glad you saw the sun rise, it's a rare things these days and most people sleep in in our society. The bus trip sound long and arduous. I'll be glad to see you but am unable to meet you at the airport as I work each Sunday evening. Take care and lots of love as you fly home. xoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxxoxox
hmmm looking forward to the bus trip.
Well you should be on the plane by now. Dad arrived home Friday night and it's good to have hime back. Hope your flight home is calm and smooth. See you sometime soon. Love Mum, Dad and Olivia xoxoxxo
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