More temples of Angkor

The second day at Angkor was more of the same. Temples, more temples, more trees strangling the temples, more busloads of Chinese and Korean tourists...

Some highlights:

 

Our guide made us go up the Phnom Bakheng hill to view the sunset about two hours before sunset because there is a limit to how many people can be there at a time and they close the entrance when the limit is reached.

Normally, I wouldn't mind a 20 minute hike up a hill. But it was so awfully hot and I was exhausted after two days of temple hopping, I was enviously eyeing the tourists who hired elephants to take them up. (No, I walked, why do you ask?)

Waiting for the sunset

Sunset over Angkor Wat

We could have continued sightseeing a third day. But, there is only so many temples you can photograph and only so much heat you can endure.