Cambodia:: Part 03: Beaches, Siem Rep, and Angkor Wat

Okay I will admit I did a lot more than just rediscover my roots in Cambodia. We actually hit alot of touristy places. We went to beaches and all. I completely forgot the names though. I will look it up later.

We also went to Siem Rep, which is the town located near Angkor Wat. We actually stayed at a 5 star hotel there which was amazingly awesome. What greeted me there though was another thing. There were so many Koreans everywhere! They actually had a good amount of Korean restaurants in the area. I mean there isnt anything wrong with Koreans (alot of my friends are koreans), but I'm shocked how much of a physical influence they have in Cambodia (restaurants, guest houses, hotels all in koean txt). After all that I visited a Cambodian Cultural fair. It was basically like a small theme park that celebrated Cambodia's rich culture and history. They even had a good size Cambodian concert right outside!

Of course no trip will be complete to Cambodia if you don't visit the temples at Angkor Wat. Angkoy wat is absolutely breathtaking! I really wish that I couldve stayed longer just for that. But what really got me was the people that i encountered there. Most of the people there were tourists yes, but some that were cambodian natives were all dressed in wedding outfits. It seems many couples use Angkor Wat as a place to shoot their wedding photos. And the dress style varied from traditional garb to more of a modern western garb. Also what i think is great, is that the temples are still in use for worship. Going in you can see a lot of people offering gifts and thanks to Buddha. I had always thought it was only used for tourism.

Anyways I've gotten some complaints that my pictures are hard to navigate through. I'm not going to say who *cough*lana*cough*, but they know who they are. So i decided to actually put them up in google's picasa, which BTW is probably the best free web album thing I've ever used (and besides i didnt have to do the annoyingly sign up process, i just used my google gmail account, hooray for google), so just click on the link below to be taken away to my picasa web album ~ I'll probably be using this to put up all of my pictures from now on.

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Part 04 Coming Soon!!