lots 'o wats

so im back in the states, but thats irrelevant, cause peeps still wanna hear about the trip. and i still want to document all this. so here we go from where we left off.

siem reap aka home of angkor wat

me and unger at the wat

ok, now these are some serious temples. just another reason why cambodia is one of my favorite places of the summer is this cool little town with awesomely nice people and really good food that just happens to be right outside of some of the most impressive achitectural structures ive ever seen in my life! we pretty much spent 3 days there exploring the many temples that are there. Unger and I went around together for the most part. Highlights are as follows:

-our awesome tuk tuk(basically a motorbike with a cart on the back with a bench) driver who wanted to drive us two days later back to the temples, but we didnt know what time we would want to go so he said, "ok ill just show up in the morning and wait outside your hotel all day for you" and he actually did. he was really cool and was quick to drive us away from crazy t-shirt vendors at the temples.

tuk tuk driver

-our group trek up a mountain to see rock carvings in torrential rains. we ditched the umbrellas after about 10 seconds cause we were soaked anyway. the journey included almost getting hit by lightning, wading through a river, climbing behind a waterfall, and some perfect timing of the sun coming out just as we reached our destination to give us a great view of the carvings. it was soo much fun and one of my favorite days of the whole summer.

unger, draths, and a cambodian in the rain pre-hike

-ta phrom, aka the jungle temple. tomb raider was filmed there aparently. its one of the coolest things ive ever seen.

look at that awesome tree growing out of the temple.

-waking up at 4am and riding in the dark to angkor wat to see the sun rise at the temple. it was beautiful, thats all i can say. once it was light enough we climbed to the top and took some great pictures in the morning light.

sunrise

-being invited for dinner and karaoke to ngoys house (one of wesleys friends). they dont have all that much, but they offered us everything they had. and seeing wesley (my professor) sing a sam cooke song was a highlight of the summer for sure.

-tea and ice cream every evening in the hotel restaurant with the lauras. it became quite a lovely ritual.

so thats just a little hint of what i did in siem reap. there were tons more amazing temples, and crazy tuk tuk adventures.

i dont know who this girl is, but its my fav pic i took all summer i think