A day in Siam Reap

This morning I've been doing some planing after breakfast. I booked a place to stay tomorrow for two nights in Battanbang and I booked the bustrip for tomorrow morning! My plan is to take another nightbus on Monday evening to Sihanonkville by the coast and spend Christmas there, so I have booked a place to stay there as well. The bus is not yet booked! 

I started walking around and came to What Preah Phrom Roth. I missed the Buddha after leaving the Monastry! Behind the sitting Buddha was a laying one. The other thing was the two oxes by the entrance to something looking like a thomb! 

I also walked passing the Market Place in the Centre and the commerce were in full swing. I'm like allways impressed how they are having the meat out in the warmth! You could buy allmost everything. I bought a little Cambodian flagg to put on my memory book!

Further on and it was time for a smoothie! Strawberry! It's warm and nice here even in the evening and I took this picture at the sun set in a smal walk way!

I've been reading a bit of the Cambodian history. First, of course, about the Khmer dynasty that made the Temles of Angkor. 

It has been a French colony since 1853 and after the WWII Japan uccupied it until 1953 then it was declared an independent state!

After the Vietnam war there was this horrible time with the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, who killed hundreds of thousands up to millions people people during 1975-79. 

Today it's a poor country but here in Siam Reap the tourism makes a boom and there are tourists from all over the world coming to visit the Temples of Angkor! That makes the cost level high and everybody tries to get the most dollars out of the tourists! 

For me it's a little too touristic! But the Temples of Angkor has been worth everything! 

This evening I had planed to go to a Rotary Meeting, but luckily I call the president to find out that the meeting was cancelled!