Chad and Sharon Moore

We are staying in Siem Reap town because it serves as the gateway to the old temple ruins of the Angkorian era Khmer Empire.  We hired Jani, a tuk-tuk driver, for a few days and we have explored most of the legendary ruins.  It was nice not to be tied to a group tour and it allowed us more freedom to experience a bit of the adventurous atmosphere of being in the ancient ruins alone amongst the jungle.  I won't bore you with all the history, etc, of the temples but it is fascinating and being able to roam around them at your own freewill is a pleasure :-) 

Needless to say, we have taken loads of photos which will probably just look like a pile of old rocks, I'm sure they would look better if we had dressed up as Indiana Jones and Lara Croft :-)

As in Thailand, the Cambodian drivers are all  mad!  An organised chaos of every type of transportation possible, they are supposed to drive on the right-hand side of the road but this rarely happens!  We have had quite a few close calls but this all adds to the excitement I suppose.  We have seen countless unusual things whilst on the road, but the amazing use of mopeds still astound us. 

There have been a family of 5 plus suitcases, probably off on holiday.  The 3 live adult pigs strapped on the back, probably off to the slaughter.  The moped with 20 or so scaffold poles tied along the side, probably trying to joust their tea on the way home.  The mother holding a hospital drip bag attached to her child whilst the dad was driving, probably no ambulances.  Not a day goes by without us doing a double-take at the traffic and saying "did you see that?"

It has been a very busy few days, we've even had to set our alarm clock for early morning starts.  It will be nice to get back to the norm, get out of bed when bored :-)