Day 2: Angkor Thom, Bahkeng Mountain
More pretty lasses with hearts of stone. I wonder where they got all these stones to build all these temples from. And how they transported them.
Beautiful, isn’t it? This, Bayon Temple, is just one of a whole bunch of temples. We politely – but firmly – refused to visit every single temple within Angkor Thom, and within Siem Reap for that matter. Our poor guide. If you look closely, all four sides of each tower are carved with a woman’s face. The faces are all slightly different.
Here’s a close-up.
And another. J is not trying to pick up that chick. Though, naturally, we told the guide otherwise.
Sunset at Bahkeng Mountain. We had to climb the steepest steps to get up here for this. We also had to wait some two hours because the guide didn’t know what to do with us, seeing as we had refused to go look at more temples.
This is, quite possibly, the most overrated sunset in the world. I mean, it’s really beautiful and all, but you should have seen the number of tourists waiting and jostling for a good spot to catch this one. I’m thinking there must have been over 200 people there. Personally, I thought the really steep stairs leading up to this and the trek up and down the mountain were more fun – in typical Y fashion, we refused to walk down the normal path with the mere mortals, we had to beat our path through trails and shortcuts.
