After I returned from Koh
Chang and Sarah flew back home it was time to finally quiet my
volunteering-ship in the Asoke, which I had done the past eight
month. So I took a bus to get to Kantharalak early in the morning to
get the papers all signed for the organization and to say goodbye to
all the people that always cared for me. I was surprised how easy
they took my decision to leave the project. They said that if I
really think that I can't stay longer they would accept that and even
invited me to the small party they give when the other volunteers
leave, so I could see everybody again for one or two days.
The same day I arrived I also went back to Bangkok the have one last day with Ayla one of the co-volunteers from the project and celebrate the opening of the restaurant of one of my Thai friends in Bangkok in my favorite second home, the Flapping Duck Guesthouse.
Also in Flapping Duck I met, Domenik, Michelle, Fee and Leon, all Germans who decided to go to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat too for a week.
The same day I arrived I also went back to Bangkok the have one last day with Ayla one of the co-volunteers from the project and celebrate the opening of the restaurant of one of my Thai friends in Bangkok in my favorite second home, the Flapping Duck Guesthouse.
Also in Flapping Duck I met, Domenik, Michelle, Fee and Leon, all Germans who decided to go to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat too for a week.
Naveah the American Girl
that worked in the Asoke for the last three month too joined
too.
Sadly I got ripped of badly at the currency exchange office. Riel, the local currency in Cambodia is so little worth that I got 1,2 Mio Riel back and was too amazed by the huge pack of bills to do the math and look up the currency exchange rates. I should have gotten 2,6 Mio Riel so I lost more than half and was broke a week after without first knowing where I lost/spend all the money, but that's past.
We stayed in the Garden Village Guesthouse in Siem Reap within bicycle riding distance from the whole area of Angkor Wat. I must say though that the big and famous Temple of Angkor Wat that is even on the Cambodian flag is the least impressive of all, I mean the wall ornaments are extraordinary but the other temples are still grown over by trees so you get the Indiana Jones feeling.
Still everything is unbelievable beautiful and amazing that at time that London had 30.000 people Angkor City had 1.000.000, building complex channel systems to water the fields and transport rocks from the hills 60 km always to build beautiful temples.
Sadly I got ripped of badly at the currency exchange office. Riel, the local currency in Cambodia is so little worth that I got 1,2 Mio Riel back and was too amazed by the huge pack of bills to do the math and look up the currency exchange rates. I should have gotten 2,6 Mio Riel so I lost more than half and was broke a week after without first knowing where I lost/spend all the money, but that's past.
We stayed in the Garden Village Guesthouse in Siem Reap within bicycle riding distance from the whole area of Angkor Wat. I must say though that the big and famous Temple of Angkor Wat that is even on the Cambodian flag is the least impressive of all, I mean the wall ornaments are extraordinary but the other temples are still grown over by trees so you get the Indiana Jones feeling.
Still everything is unbelievable beautiful and amazing that at time that London had 30.000 people Angkor City had 1.000.000, building complex channel systems to water the fields and transport rocks from the hills 60 km always to build beautiful temples.
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| all the mangroves where cut down and the water went bad |
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| Angkor Wat on the first day |
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| Gate to the Temple-City |
