The temple we nearly didn't see, Beng Mealea. We had seen quite a few temples by this stage after all. Although none for a day and a half and we had come so far, so why not. (it meant we never did get to wander around the centre of town but we drove through it on the way to the airport, I'm confident time at a temple was the better option - there were plenty of shops in the centre of town, nothing wrong with it, just not as good as another temple..)
After a rest on the drive over, Toby was full of beans and ready to lead the way. This temple is one of the less busy ones, for one it is over an hour of driving from Siem Reap. There were barely any hawkers and it was less restored than some of the temples. Some say this was the one Angor Wat was based on. Like all the temples, there is a long straight walk down into it (with some local kids playing)
After a rest on the drive over, Toby was full of beans and ready to lead the way. This temple is one of the less busy ones, for one it is over an hour of driving from Siem Reap. There were barely any hawkers and it was less restored than some of the temples. Some say this was the one Angor Wat was based on. Like all the temples, there is a long straight walk down into it (with some local kids playing)
The main entrance was a bit crumbly but Tobes was keen to go through. He RAN towards it and started scrambling up. In fact he led the way the whole way around the temple, when we got to the end our guide said we should go right and Toby said "No, Toby says we go left" and the guide said sure, so we got to see the temple Toby Style.
It was quite high up in the end, and we got into the gateway a local kid told us it was too hard and that we needed to go around. He was right.
So in around the sides and this is what we got to climb over to get through (or you could go the easy board walk way around).
Yep we even went through the below.
Inside was pretty cool and the afternoon light was good.
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