Today we got up at 4:30am to go and watch the sun rise at Angkor Wat.
Angkor Wat is a massive city and when it was still a home for people it was the largest city in the world.
We had a tuk-tuk driver drive us around all day and when we came back from every temple he was asleep in the back of his tuk-tuk and we had to wake him up. This is roughly a count of how many people and vehicles were there, 1,000, 2,000 miss a few 999,000, 1,000,000.
When the sun came up it looked like a red fire ball that was getting closer by the minute.
The temple had five pillars and there was one high one and four little ones. The highest one represents the most sacred mountain in the Hindu world and the four little ones represent the four ones that stand tall beside it.
We had to leave really quick so we wouldn’t get smothered by people and at the next temple it was quiet.
The next temple was called Bayon and I liked it the most because it was like a labyrinth. You had to go right and then left, then right and then straight. It was cool because it was shaded from the sun.
The tuk-tuk driver took us in a big arc around a 1/4 of a1/4 of the temples in the area of Angkor Wat.
My favorite things of the day were how good the people that lived there were at carving in the walls and how good they were at building the temples. That was 900 years ago and if somebody were to attack the main temple it would still hold up.
I think I would come back if I was allowed to.
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Lukoia Coffey over and out.