The final temple viewing day started at a decent hour, 7am, but there was still a lot to see.
Chantha took us on a fun field trip on the way to one of the temples. Locals were making candy from palm trees. It tasted like maple syrup candy.
We also got to try a lightly fermented palm juice in addition to palm fruit. The fruit reminded me of a giant gusher.
Banteay Srei was by far the best preserved temple. The carvings were amazingly detailed. I can't imagine how it would have looked in its prime. It was begun in AD 967.
We visited the water temple at Kbal Spean. This is a carved riverbed that requires a 2km uphill walk from the trailhead.
And we finished off the day with some more beautiful temples. I definitely got side tracked by the cool spiders everywhere. I found a giant half eaten whipscorpion in a spiders web. The size that spider needed to be to take out one that size... wish I could've seen it.
That night we enjoyed the night life of Siem Reap. Pub Street is fantastic, with lots of food stands, cheap drinks and good bars. Angkor what? was a fun place with good music and drinks served in buckets. It was a good way to send off Cambodia. Onto Thailand the next day!
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