Siem Reap Trip - Day Three

Currently listening to : Can't Take It by The All American Rejects ( it's nice to hear their songs again )


Celebrated david's belated birthday in pizza hut together with wai lik, li lian, chooi yeng, cmt and pik chee. Had our dinner there. Then we hang out in david's house for quite a while. We did ransacked every section of his house by not letting a single thing untouched especially his rabbits. Yup, torturing his rabbits. Haha... I do have a great time hanging out with them even though i didn't talk much cause i'm a quiet person. That is the weird of me. Haha...

The hand of David. Happy Belated Birthday.

My third day in siem reap was the same as on the second day. We're still in angkor because we didn't finish visiting the sites here yesterday. That day, we visited the ta phrom that is one of the ancient khlmer temple and a university. Part of this temple were being swallowed and coverred by the huge old trees. These trees were centuries old. Well, i can see the nature is dominating the ta phrom temple bit by bit. As we should know about the first tomb raider movie, part of the scenes were filmed here. Guess we should get a pirated dvd of it to refresh it back. Haha...

One of the entrance into the temple.

A tree pop out from the roof.

The tree seems to 'eating' the temple up.

Part of the ruins.

Another tree trying to take over.

Fine piece of art found on the wall.

Scary tree roots.

A sculpture found surrounded by the roots of the trees.

They join.

Next, we headed to banteay srei which is one of the angkor temple too. However, this is not a royal temple and it is much smaller compare to other temples that i'd visited in angkor. It is situated 20km away from angkor. Well, this temple is famous for its fine and delicate carvings and decorations on the pink sandstone.

Fine delicate carvings that can be found in this temple.

Another piece of art.

Entrance to the temple.

The carvings on the roof.

Then we went to the land mine museum. It is sad to see how these people suffered during the khlmer rouge period which was leaded by pol pot during that time. A total about 1.7 million had died during his ruling as a result of political execution, starvation and forced labour. Well, a entrance of US$ 1 will be contributed to diffuse the active land mines.

Cambodia's history.

Look at the number of land mines that can be found in this museum.

I guess that is all about the trip is siem reap. As a conclusion, i enjoyed a lot in this trip, seeing different part of this world. Got touched how these peoples especially the children lives. Well, we should start appreciate the things that we have around us and be grateful for what we're having now.

Interested, anyone?