A Farewell Love Letter to Siem Reap

Our last full day in Siem Reap, after all the temple exploration we were finally visiting the most famous ones- saving the best for last. At least we did it right. I rarely think waking up for a sunrise is worth it. I think sunsets are just as pretty and you don't have to wake up at an insanely early hour to see them. However, if you're visiting Angkor Wat it's worth it. It was amazing how many people were there wandering around in the darkness just to see the sun rise over the temple. This is just another time I wish pictures could really capture the beauty we saw.

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Siem Reap- the middle

Our second day being explorers we went to some of the outer temples - so we only got to see about 3 because we spent much of our time driving (tuk tuking) from one place to the next. 

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Siem Reap- The Beginning

Okay, so I really was trying to do Siem Reap in just two entries, but we just saw way too many amazing things and had way too many memorable events happen, so it's just going to have to be three. Trust me there will be no one who hates this more than my editor. He's sick of editing all these posts. Which, I mean is tough because really the first draft is just me spewing words out without a lot of second passes or punctuation or even a real spell check run, so he does a lot of work here. (EDIT: I really don't).

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Not the most fun day of our Chengdu vacation

So about 45 miles outside Chengdu is a town called LeShan. It has a GIANT Buddha carved into a cliff.The story is a monk carved him into the mountain sometime between 618–907 AD and it's a World Heritage Site, therefore we figured being this close, we should probably visit. 

After we lazily got out of our AMAZING bed (more on that in another post) we went over to the bus station and boarded a bus to LeShan. Now if I hear something is 45 miles outside a city and we take a nonstop bus, I would assume the ride would be what? Maybe 1.5 hours max? Yeah, 3 hours later when we finally got off the bus, I was pretty grumpy amped to get going. 

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