Say Wat!? A Day To-mb Remember

I was very excited about this trip as I am a big fan of Tomb Raider (mainly the Playstation game though not the film), so we waited eagerly outside our hotel for our driver and personal tour guide who was a lovely man but he had milky eye. What I didn't realise until we were there is that Angkor Wat is not the whole thing, it's just one of many temples and a lot of people go 5 times to see them all. We only had 1 day so it was a bit of a challenge Anneka but we were up to it! The day started off in true Lara Croft style when 2 wild dogs decided to use Daniel as a fighting post and he had to fend them off getting scratched in the process, he had some jabs later on so don't worry he hasn't got rabies!

The first temple we visited was Daniel's favourite and was called the Bayon Temple. It had loads of Buddha faces all around which were massive and really impressive! The next temple we went to we weren't actually allowed in well I wasn't anyway as our guide had forgotten to let me know that I needed to have my knees and shoulders covered, I had neither! It's alright for boys though but being a gentleman Daniel decided we would both miss that one out and we just walked around it instead to see the sneaky reclining Buddha that the Buddhists had built into the wall even though it was a Hindu temple!

Next was my favourite, Ta Prohm, which has been intentionally left natural with the jungle growing round and through it and a huge tree growing out the top! It was here that they got the inspiration for the Tomb Raider films and I am not surprised! I proper felt like I was in the Aztec era or something it was so cool! I felt like scaling some walls, swinging on some vines and shooting some wild dogs/ bad guys!

Last but definitely not least we went to see the impressive Angkor Wat itself. It is so big and we spent ages wandering around learning about the wall carvings and how the king had 4 massive baths to choose from (most of these temples were built by different kings and were for their use only) with rudey nudey carvings of women round the side! Unfortunately we picked the only day of the year that you can't go all the way to the top, typical, so our tour ended here. I think the day tour was enough for us but it really is a magical place and it was proper fun pretending to be a tomb raider for a day!

That evening we found ourselves at the Red Piano Bar where Angelina herself had visited and created her own Tomb Raider cocktail, every 10th one is free and every 100th you got 100 dollars so we ordered 2 and kept our fingers crossed. Next thing we know we hear a bell ringing and believe it or not we had won a free one, ding ding! Thanks Anj!