After Angkor Wat, we headed to Ta Prohm. While Angkor Wat was the big, main temple, Ta Prohm was completely different. It was a lot less crowded and in a much worse state of disrepair, but the most important thing was the trees. They had taken over the temple and it was absolutely amazing to see.
Next we had lunch, saw some monkeys digging through trash bins, saw a woman throwing coconuts at them and saw them fleeing. It was kind of awesome.
Then we went to Bayon, which is different from the first two temples. It is covered in faces; 216 to be exact. It's up for debate whether they are all the face of a single king, or the faces of many deities. Like Ta Prohm, Bayon was also much less crowded than Angkor Wat and still vastly different.
We finished Bayon just as the temples were closing for the day. Throughout the day we had passed many other cool temples and things, but those three were the ones where we spent our time and did serious exploring.
That evening, we met up with a friend of mine from the States, that I was planning to travel with after my Songyuan friend left, for dinner, drinks and a hookah bar. My States' friend had actually found our hostel and left me a note with the front desk to let us know when he'd meet us which was pretty exciting; that was I think the fourth piece of "mail" I've received in Asia, haha!
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