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| Chasing the break of dawn in Cambodia. |
By 5AM, we were on our
toes and ready to kick start the day with a healthy dose of sunshine at the
famous Angkor Wat. Unfortunately, our tuktuk
driver forgot to fetch us. Or simply made other plans with customers who were
willing to pay more. Damn. By the time we booked with an alternate tuktuk
driver, it was nearly sunrise and we tried to chase it – to no avail. Sad to
say, the sunrise was not for us to see that day. :(
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| Didn't catch the sunrise but I can still take a photo with it! |
One of the more important
realizations I had that day was that the Angkor Archaeological Park is HUUUGE. Angkor
Wat is just one of the temples you can visit. Thus, they are selling 1-day
pass, 2-day pass, and 3-day passes for tourists. Yup, that’s a lot of
temple-hopping right there. And because we didn’t have 3 days, we got the 1-day
pass. I only wanted really nice pictures of myself in a background of
awesome-looking temples, especially that temple where Angelina Jolie shot Tomb
Raider. Yeah, sometimes I can be that
shallow. It’s just impossible to see all temples in one day at a normal
pace. We’ve already rented the tuktuk for a day and didn’t want to splurge a
couple more dollars to hire a tour guide so we looked at the map of the entire
park and marked the temples we wanted to go visit. It was sort of a wise
decision though. Our first stop was in Angkor Wat and within 30 minutes of
walking around and taking pictures, I was already templed out. So we told our
tuktuk driver of the plan, made a route around the temples we wanted to visit, took
short strolls around each temple, snapped several photos, and then went back to
our guest house.
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At the entrance to Bayon Temple
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| Face etched on the temple entrance |
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| Ta Prohm, where AJ shot Tomb Raider. |
Later that evening, we
headed to Happy Angkor Pizza to check the second item off my travel bucket
list: eat happy pizza. If you don’t know what that is, google it. *wink* Some sources on the internet say
there’s been a crackdown on happy pizza in Cambodia but from the looks of it,
there isn’t. Stalls are flaunting their dishes happily, pun intended.
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| Happy Pizza with melted cheese |
There are levels of “happiness”
in the pizza you can order. I chose the mildest of course. I just wanted to taste
it, not get addicted to it. My travel buddy didn’t want to try it so I had five
slices all to myself. The pizza was goooooood. I didn’t like the taste of the
happy toppings though. I could taste the herb and it’s a bitter contrast to the
cheese and sauce. Thankfully, no hallucinations of any sort occurred that night.
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