Cycling Ankor Wat

Today was supposed to be a day off. After two days of travel we were going to take today off and then visit Ankor Wat tomorrow.

But I found it hard to not just, you know, go have a look to see what you are going to see. So we borrowed some bikes from the hostel and went up there.

It was supposed to be a 15 min, maybe 1 hour tour. But it ended up being a 4 hour extravaganza as the more we saw, the deeper into the Ankor Wat area we went.

Both the sites and the environment of the sites exceeded expectations. The series of temples are all inside of a well treed park so it was enjoyable to ride our bikes from place to place. Ankor Wat and the other temples were cool to look at and appreciate the heavy stone work - by heavy I mean the full on figures made out of stone - as well as some of the light stone work - like the relief stone carvings showing mostly scenes of Vishnu conquering over demons.

Unfortunately one of the seats on the bikes was not attached to the bike properly so after experimentation we ended up taking turns sitting on the pannier bracket on the rear wheel and riding "cruiser style" on the back of that bike. It was pretty painful considering how much riding we did.