Cambodia
Two days ago, Mark and I arrived in Cambodia and immediately did a short run to the ruins with our guide and driver and we did a climb up a mountain with numerous other people to see an amazing sun set. We have our own guide who comes with a car and driver to take us anywhere we want to go. Our hotel is beautiful and quite tranquil.
Yesterday was an all day tour of various temples beginning with a temple ruin referred to by some as the women's temple (Apsara Banteay Srei) since it was built by one of the kings who dedicated it to women. There were many beautiful stone carvings and elaborate writings on stone. We went to another site, which was really our favorite, the one where Tomb Raiders was filmed. It was spectacular with those huge old trees growing over the stones and into some of the stones and we climbed up into and all around this site and I wanted to swing across on a vine like Angelina Joli but the guide discouraged it.
We did get a one-hour rest back at the hotel after lunch and then we were back at it touring Angkor Wat I, which is the extremely large temple, complex. I thought the climb the first day was steep but we did some climbs up rock steps this day that seemed straight up with no hand rail and the step was about as wide as a woman's shoe. We loved it and it is so impressive and beautiful with walls 80 feet long carved with figures all over and telling the stories...some stories of mythology and others of everyday life in the 12th century.
At 7 pm we went to dinner and a performance by Cambodian dancers then a drink at the Foreign Correspondents Club and a tuk tuk ride a couple of long blocks to the hotel.

Today our guide and driver are taking Mark and I on a trip on the Mekong Delta and we will travel on a lake that is 100 miles long with floating villages including floating churches, police stations, and floating pens for animals and then back to Bangkok this evening

More adventures when we get back to Thailand and head for Koh Samui. As you probably know, Koh means island, and we love islands