Day 16

Despite the late night the day before i got up at 7 in order to get to the temples early. While having breakfast i talked to a guy called jack who was doing the same so we agreed to share a tuk-tuk he just had to wait for his friend who would meet us at 8. The friend didn't turn up until 9:30 but was hilarious so we let him off.
The driver took us to Ankor Wat first (the famous one) and it was incredible. It is absolutely huge and i've never seen anything like it. He dropped us off just outside and we had to walk to the temple. On the way we were swarmed by loads of little kids trying to sell us stuff who despite only being about 6-7 spoke perfect english.
To get into the complex you have to walk across a huge bridge spanning the 100m wide moat and through a really impressive gate. Once inside you get a true gist of how huge the place is. The outer walls enclose multiple smaller temples and a huge amounts of open space and even a couple of lakes. On the walk to the main complex i bumped into a couple of guys i had met on the ha long bay trip 2 weeks ago. It's crazy how you can bump into people you'd never thought you'd see again. Then again everyone's doing kinda the same route so i shouldn't be that surprised.
The main temple is awe-inspiring (running out of adjectives here), the intricacy on all the wall carvings is amazing and it's still in great condition despite being 1000years old. There was a lot of climbing up damgerous steps (with signs warning of death everywhere and the guide book saying that they had to close this area for a while due to the number of deaths) which was both exhausting and scary made worse by the 35degree heat.
I stupidly wore long trousers and a shirt i order not to get bitten by malaria mosquitoes (i was the only one) and so i was absolutely covered in sweat at this point. Luckily the view at the top made up for it. You could see the whole complex and appreciate the fact that it is totally surrounded by jungle and marvel at how on earth they built something like this.
After Ankor Wat we went to get something to eat and mid way through the meal the driver let out a comic girly scream and pointed to the table. There was the biggest spider i have ever seen and it ran straight at Jack. He freaked out and knocked his plate everywhere, we couldn't stop laughing for 10 mins.
After we had calmed down a little we visited a couple of different temples which were also pretty impressive but nowhere near the scale of Ankor Wat. The last temple we visited was probably my favourite though, even better than Ankor Wat. It had been over run by jungle and had trees growing through it and was in the middle of nowhere, it looked like a ancient lost city out of tomb raider.
In the evening we (The dad, the two new girls from our dorm, a hungarian and a dutch girl and loads of really fit Finnish girls that the dad somehow knew) went an had another street BBQ which was awesome and then went and got a fish massage. It was really weird and kinda pointless but relaxing after a while. We then headed back to pub street and played a couple of drinking games and then went clubbing. We had a great night and all went swimming at 5am which may not have been the greatest idea but was pretty fun...