Sunday, July 20, 2008

WAT WAT!

Wat Wat! (Not to be confused with WHAT WHAT!)

What a whirlwind of a week. Jess and I have been in 3 countries in the past 1.5 weeks. From Vietnam we went to Cambodia and now we are back in Thailand...

Cambodia. The whole country is like one big dollar store (no really, they actually use dollars). Upon arrival, Jess tried to get money from the ATM in Cambodian currency and realized she could only take money out in dollars...US Dollars. And everything costs a dollar-- from motocycle rides to coca cola light, it's all a dollar.

Angkor Wat was amazing. We visited 5 of the 39 temples of the massive old city, starting the day at 4:30 am to make it in time to see the sunrise. So impressive! Some of the Wats (aka temples) were over 1000 years old. Many of them started as Hindu temples and others were Buddhist temples that were later converted to Hindu temples...when we asked our guide what he thought of the Hindus that changed the ancient carvings of Buddha to lotus flowers he replied "Oh, they all went to Hell."

Um, yeah.

So yeah, we're back in Thailand after a 28 hour commute for a party...but not just any party...the Full Moon party on Koh Phagnan. Buckets of cocktails, thousands of backpackers and lots of neon lights...like an International spring break. Thank god we're fully immersing ourselves in Thai culture (but we survived and it was amazing and we are buying tshirts).

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