bottles of yellow liquid

didn’t really get a chance to use the computer at our siem reap guesthouse lobby, which, according to the rest, had an awfully slow connection speed anyway, after getting over the fact that the user would have to put up with the heat, humidity, bugs and other troubling gripes of tropical weather.

playing bridge in ancient ruins

Sitting down in the middle of ancient ruins playing a game of bridge is a pretty surreal feeling. Today was a pretty relaxed day (which explains why I am blogging so early at 7pm) as we had only a few remaining ruins to visit and hence we had plenty of time for each temple we are visiting today at the Angkor Wat Archaeological Park. We decided to occupy ourselves with games of bridge in the various temples we visited today.

Diablo II was inspired by Angkor

We visited the rest of the temple ruins along the eastern side of Angkor today. This particular ruin at Preah Khan reminded me of the causeway that leads into the Chaos Sanctuary in Act IV of Diablo II.

Siem Reap

I have not updated for a very long time. The reason is a combination of fatigue, disease (fortunately the worst effects staved off with the wonders of modern medication) and the 2 antiquated computers which compose our current guesthouse’s free Internet service consistently being occupied by angmohs. Not to mention the machines being located in a beastly hot and humid corner of the lobby.

Where’s Wally? Angkor edition.

As I walked through Angkor Wat viewing more than 1000 square metres of bas reliefs, I developed a new threory. Where’s Wally was first played by Angkor artisans.

at last rain

The rain that fell this evening was the heaviest I have seen since arriving in Cambodia. Previously there were a few extremely brief and light drizzles but no downpours. It was great to have some rain because the past few days were extremely hot and more rain means that our boat ride to Battambang on Thursday will be smoother too. Besides, I am yet to experience what a downpour in Cambodia feels like.