Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

No trip to Cambodia is really compete without paying a visit to Angkor Wat so like every other Cambodian tourist we went to take a look. I’d like to say that I was blown away by the ruins but I’d be exaggerating. Don’t get me wrong they were impressive and definitely worth seeing but not something I’d put on a top five list. There are three passes available for seeing the temples: 1, 3 or 7 days. After one full day I was satisfied.

We took off quite early, 6am to see some of the site before it was really crowded or really hot. Angkor Wat is actually made up of many different temples but we decided to start with AW itself. It is in the best shape of the four temple sites we visited but because of this it lacked a bit of the magic the other sites had.

We visited four temples in total Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, —- and Ta Phrom. The last was my favourite. It lives in the middle of the jungle and is overrun with trees, vines and moss. It is mostly fallen with very few walls still standing but that’s what I liked. It was stuff of fairy tales to see how the trees had grown right up through the stone. The roots of the trees looked like massive snakes weaving their way through the brick and after destroying it remaining there to support the structure.

At 2 we decided to call it a day and head in to see some of Siem Reap. I immediately fell in love but that’s another story.