We visited mostly ruins today. There were a lot of Chinese and Japanese tourists at the first one. Then we became more interested in these ants than the ruins. They were just so interesting!! The ruins were crumbling away and flooded due to the heavy rain last night. The carvings on the buildings were gorgeous. Explored the market after that visit. The sellers attacked you and there was some heavy bargaining done along with some yelling. A very intense experience.
Lunch was terrifying. After we ordered Alessa started moaning and then passed out. We were debating about letting her head rest on the table or moving her to the floor when she started convulsing. Thankfully there was a Japanese nurse at the next table. Even better is that Drexler speaks Japanese fluently. She recovered and was relocated back to the hotel. The rest of us visited some more ruins and we tried to spend a while there since Drexler had wanted us to go. Surprise, those weren't the awesome part. The next temple was my second favorite because we weren't expecting it. It was rather freaky to drive up and see little kids coming away from the temple with a slingshot in one hand and a handful of dead bats in the other. I wish we had gotten more time there since there were more mini temples surrounding the main one (I think they built it to worship the stair god) but we had told the others ten minutes so we had to go back.
Did not do much for the rest of the day but that was fine. Heading back to Panom Penh tomorrow and then Thailand the day after that.
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