In Siam Reap we found a new, cheap, really good guesthouse almost having a hotel style. When we got of the bus thousands of tuk tuk drivers with advertisments of different guesthouses in their hand gave us a warm welcome, making the police helping us to get our backpacks and chosing one of those annoying guys to take us into town. We wanted to go the first evening to Angkor Wat to see the famous sunset, however, our driver told us that it would rain and that it would not make sense. Indeed it did not rain and it turned out to be an amazing sunset with rainy clouds on the one side with two rainbows stretching across them and a beautiful sun setting in the most amazing colors - bad luck for us. The next morning our drive took us to Angkor Wat. It was a day excursion and how it always happened: I had really bad stomach cramps all afternoon. But still, the Angkor Wat area with hundrets of old Buddhist and Hindu temples being built thousands of years ago was really impressive. As we went only one day because of the high entrance fee we saw the major temples: Angkor Wat itself, the temple used to film the movie "Tomb Raider" having these trees with them humangous roots growing through the temple, some other smaller ones, and the wanted sunset on a little mountain overlooking the surrounding plaine. After a hot nice day we went back to Siam Reap and enjoying one or the other cool drink in the Angkor What bar. The next day we did some shopping and relaxing, watching the opening game of the Word Champiochip Germany-Costa Rica with a Cambodian girl we met during her work in a restaurant and two British girls we met on the 4000 Islands. Looking at the result it was a fun night. Early the next morning we left for Bangkok: 165 kilometers in 7 hours to the Cambodian Thai border - do I have to say anything more to it?! The way to from the border to Bangkok was ok, however, once we only touched the city border we needed 1,5 hours for 1 kilometer because the Thais were celebrating their king's 60th anniversary of being king. So we grapped our backpack and walked the rest of the way and we were lucky because we got to see some nice fire works!
Some more info: I cannot put up more pics on my page because of the capacity available to me but my brother and I will find an alternative!!! Also, the page is almost up to date: We spent 4 days in Bangkok, Uli being really sick for two days. We spent the nights at friends of my aunt who were really nice to us. Thank you very much Didi, Tom, and Fabienne. Tom showed us arround in Bangkok with a special highlight: A bar on the 59th floor on the second highest building in Bangkok. Very nice, I can tell you! Now we are on Kho Samui enjoying the sun, beach, and sea...
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