Rested, fed, and in good spirits, we boarded tuk-tuk's for Angkor to see the temples.
Until you've seen the temples of Angkor I cannot express the magnitutde of this compound. We toured several Wat's (what temples are called here) and hung around for the sunset, a very good adventure!
On our way back to the hostel we spotted a pack of monkeys accompanied by a dozen ca
mbodian children selling fruit. After intense negotiation we ambled over to the monkeys and taunted them with food for a solid twenty minutes. The young monkeys have no qualms with climbing all over you in search of food, the older and significantly overweight monkeys give you resentful looks when you make them work for the fruit, but what can I say? There's no such thing as a free lunch, even if you're a monkey.
At night everyone dispersed for their choice of food then met back up to watch an Apsara dance, a series of short stories told though dancing and costumes.
As a side note, the Cambodians are offended when you try and pay them in riel, their own currency... The Cambodians expect crisp US dollars and every price list is expressed as such, who knows.
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