More temples (of course!), though a more leisurely day as today we did the 26km "large circuit", with overall fewer temples and greater distances between them, with the bonus of fewer tourists as well. We also added in a visit to Banteay Srei (a further 21km), Banteay Samre, and the land mine museum. We are both amazed at how many people travel all the way to Siem Reap and seem only to visit just the two or three main temples ... the number of people at Angkor Wat would have been in the thousands, but at some of the smaller, but still very interesting temples, at times we felt as if we were the only ones there.
At one stage after Kathryn had delivered one of her "care packages", the kids crowded around us and kept asking for more t-shirts. As we had no more with us Kathryn threatened to take off her shirt ... when she started to lift it off the kids started screaming ... and so did all of the tuk tuk drivers who were watching. At this point Mike decided it was in his best interests to keep very very quiet ......
After temples, back to town, more shopping (much to Mike's dismay), dinner, and back to the hotel for a well deserved rest .... these holidays are such hard work (or so Kathryn kept telling our tuk tuk driver Mr. Keo).
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