Temple Legs.

My god my thighs are killing me after 2 days of climbing temple steps - steps about 2 feet tall and 3 inches deep going up 50 feet at impossible angles. I am so happy I came to Cambodia back in 2005 and saw Angkor before it became so popular. While it remains one of my favorite places in the world it has been overrun by mass tourism - back in 2005 it was busy but only a tenth of what it is now - the mass explosion of tourism from Korea and China has overewhelmed it - many of the places I was able to visit are now closed off for fear of damage by so many people - I feel very fortunate to have experienced it when I did - dont get me wrong - I would still highly recommend a visit - it is truly breathtaking. This morning we took a boat trip out to the floating village on the Tonle Sap lake - amazing how people live. Pictures and video to folow when I get the time to organze things. Tomorrow we are off to Sisophon and to Poipet on the Thai border to visit two of Da's sisters and family. Closing note - yesterday I saw a motorcycle carying two fully grown live pigs = yes live - they were trussed and on their backs across the moto behind the rider squealing loudly - obviously they dont appreciate the Cambodian traffic either - but I suspect their disquiet was to be short lived...