My Travels in Books: Cambodia
I went to Cambodia as part of my big Asia-trip in 2009. To be honest I only wanted to go to Cambodia, because I wanted to see the ancient temples of Angkor Wat. And boy, did I?! We spent 3 days just touring the temples, and I took about a million pictures from every angle and then some more, just to be sure. I was worried that it would be completely overrun by tourists, but the place is actually so big that even though there are many tourists, it doesn’t feel too packed. The Angkor Wat Temple One morning we got up at 4 to see the sunrise over the temples. Apparently our brains were not functional that early, so we didn’t bring a flashlight. Being brought up in a country with plenty of street lamps, you don’t think about how truly DARK it can get at night. So our poor tuk-tuk driver had to lead the way up to the top of the temple using his cell phone as a flash light. The sunrise was lovely and it was documented in great detail. The sunrise at Phnom Ba...