The Most Famous Ancient Temple in the World Angkor Wat Sunrise Tour
what's that local spring roll oh local spring roll yeah roll local spring roll it's a cold towel that's so funny three two one whoa it's okay you keep for you yeah okay thank thank you thank you you're welcome today we are in Siem Reap Cambodia and we are going to the world famous Angkor Wat which is the largest religious monument in the world and right now it is dark because we've come here for Sunrise there's already a lot of tourists Gathering here and we have a local guide with us I'm Veasna thank you so much for picking us up and coming out here thank you for coming to Siem Reap welcome to Cambodia thank you thank you I could already see the top of the temple we're walking over to Angkor wat right now we're going to go find a spot to watch the sunrise starting to see it a little bit over here my idea is going to the front where the stair over there that you can take a seat okay let's go there okay I can already see this is the water the reflection first we're going to enjoy this sunrise and then we're going to learn more about Angkor Wat and we'll share some information with you and also take a tour of not just this Temple but a few others around this area there's already a lot of people in here all right now we can actually see what's going on around here the sun is rising right over Angkor Wat right now and we're going to go inside learn a little bit more about what this place is okay one more time remind me how to pronounce your name Veasna all right Veasna has already been sharing so much interesting information and I'm excited to share that with you because this place is magnificent and I'm just so excited to be here I've heard about Angkor Wat and this archaeological park for so many years and I have never been to Cambodia although I've traveled quite a bit in Southeast Asia years ago this is a bucket list item for me so I'm so happy to be here and to be here for Sunrise is also just so epic here we go we're walking inside right now so this is sandstone is everything Sandstone yeah almost every part of the building you you can see from outside it is sandstone but the core of the building it is the volcanic rock volcanic rock volcanic rock yeah last week we were in Bangkok and we went to a very famous temple called the Grand Palace and there was a miniature version of this so we saw a miniature Angkor Wat and just in the miniature size you could see the grand scale of this Temple and to be here in person right now this feels amazing now we're going inside very detail on the structure but the same time you can see they crack here they destroy the damage from the bullets during the Civil War in Cambodia bullets Bullet Hole whoa that's crazy about what year was that the Civil War the Civil War in Cambodia it happened in the 1970s to 1980s and they were fighting inside the temple area also that why many part of the temple today that you can see it is the new restoration many parts okay yeah some part already restore some part being restore today still and you can see the Bullet Hole that you still can touch the bullet today that from the war the Civil War in Cambodia my goodness it's still a bullet sticking in here the temple was built in the year 1113 to 1150 37 year that the king spent to build this Temple and the Temple of Angkor Wat originally built dedicated to Vishnu God yeah the god a protector Hindu god yeah the people worship three main God we have Brahma God, Vishnu God, and Shiva God. so Brahma is the creator Vishnu is the protector Shiva is the Destroyer so this is Temple built for protector original name is not Angkor Wat original name of this building we call it Parama Viṣṇuloka yeah mean the heavens for the Vishnu God Angkor Wat is the new name it mean uh like the word Angkor means City and the word Wat means Temple the city of Temple all of this pieces of sandstone it transported from the Kulen Mountain the national park today and the waterfall over there and the way they carry the stone you can see the hole on the wall on the stone here very clearly yeah these holes it's always in pairs like this like they they cut the Stone from the mountain and then they put the they make the hole on it they put the wooden pillar inside the hole and then they wet the wooden pillar with the water it become like expand firmly inside the hole become the handle that it can carry the stone wow they use a lot of elephant horses and the human labors slaves at that time million ton of stone carried to build this Temple million ton of stone so these are all used so they can carry them so these two buildings on either side of the path are libraries ancient buildings where they help the scriptures can you walk on this? you're allowed to walk on it, Use the original stairs wow I'm gonna go read some some yeah go read the Scrolls just the feeling of being inside such an old preserved building that was designed to preserve information that's what this building was here for amazing a lot of people out here this is where he was saying people come for Sunrise they gather in front of that pool to try and catch the reflection wow now the way the sun is hitting that building look at that it's glowing I'm just so happy to be here I can't stop smiling we got some friends coming what's up dudes whoa just walking right by how's it going good morning hello hello little baby monkeys oh he's looking at your bag look at the little babies good bye monkeys have a good day oh did you get something yeah first monkeys I love it so this is the famous spot right over here if you Google a photo of anchor wat it's most likely from right here cuz you can see the Five Points of this Temple right between these trees right here yeah you can see all the five main tower in the water between the two tree over there yeah look these guys in the water that's dedication right here that's what I'm talking about do it for the content oh yeah I'm going to show you a very popular uh story on the wall of Angkor Wat is Ramayana story it is the Hindu mythology that originally from India but you will see the different art style yeah of the carving on the wall let's go there hey Steve hey Lao right yeah I'm Lao nice to meet you nice to meet you need to take a video selfie yeah yeah are you making a video Chris gave me this camera yeah he told me about that that's amazing happy yeah so now you have to make more YouTube videos yeah I will you in my first video now oh your first video all right cool and look at this you're in my video right here oh thank you so are you making a video today about Angkor Wat no just just just recording yeah recording around so I have a friend in Cambodia right now his name is Chris if you watch YouTube videos you might have seen him he's been making a lot of videos around here promoting tourism and exploring this beautiful country and he recommended that I reach out to this guy right here Lao hello Lao Classics here yeah Lao Classic so Lao has been sharing a lot of content on social media he's you're from Cambodia right yeah I'm Cambodian amazing my name is Lao incredible and I reached out to Lao asking begging him to give me a tour I'm just kidding I was asking if he can give me a tour but this guy is so incredibly busy giving so many people tours around here introducing people to the beauty of this country and unfortunately I did not plan much in advance so I just asked Lao like hey are you available tomorrow for a tour he's actually giving a tour to some other people right now but he has a company out here that he connected me with someone else and that's that's who we're uh on a on a tour with today but thank you he's my team yeah yeah yeah Veasna is part of your team he's amazing yeah yeah he's amazing photographer great guy cool so if you had any message to someone who's never been to Cambodia before what would you say oh my God he caught me off guard plan your trip properly okay it's um Cambodia is more than just this Temple mhm it's it's more than that you can Cruise along the Mekong see fresh water dolphin go to the South beautiful beach Clear Water you go diving very clear water yeah I compare Cambodia to other count that I've been to here is unspoiled not a lot of tourists no better time to visit Cambodia than now plan your trip now I'm so excited to go explore I'm going to be making more videos so I invite you to subscribe to join these Adventures as I travel around Cambodia but Lao so great meeting you man great meeting you too sorry to interrupt get back to the tour thank so much see you around man nice meeting you what a great guy I highly recommend you follow him on Instagram he shares a lot of content a lot of great tips and recommendations for stuff and he's starting a YouTube channel so go subscribe to his YouTube channel all right now back to the tour let's go now we are entering another layer deeper detail originally from the 12th century 12th century there's no new restoration on it it's old it's all original yeah manmade wow show this race you see the narrative caring on the wall of Angkor Wat it depict the Hindu mythology called ramayana story Ramayana yeah originally from India let go to see the Cambodian version okay all the part of the carving here is original carving no new restoration on it wow you can see it's very detailed very detailed I went on the clo you can see the detail on the clothes like decoration everything do not touch very important if you come here it might be very enticing to want to touch this it's ancient it's beautiful it's still well preserved but just leave it alone don't touch it just look look with your eyes not your hands this is the battlefield between the monkey and the demons how you recognize the military here they look different like we have the demon Army here and the monkey Army you can see clearly here they have the face of monkey yeah face of monkeys over here wow the fighting between the monkey and the demon that the monkey they support the Rama God who is The Reincarnation of the Vishnu God and why they fighting uh why they were fighting here because of the lady named Sita Sita is the most beautiful lady in the story and everyone wants to marry her in the story and she married to the Rama God who is a very powerful man The Reincarnation of the Vishnu God and the king of demon he also wanted to marry her but she already married to the Rama God and then he decided to kidnap Sita to his city called Lanka city Lanka city is the city of the Demons yeah and Rama God he decided to leave the palace go to fight in order to get his fight back on the way to the the battlefield he met the monkey named Hanuman the king of monkey very strong monkey and then he told the whole story what happened to him to the monkey and then the monkey decided to support him he got all the military uh monkey military and join with the Rama God heading to the Lanka city and they fight this is the battlefield in the Lanka city at the end of the battlefield the monkey they got the victory so they rescue Sita I really like this it remind me of my childhood always watching WWE championship between monkey and demon here wrestling WWE style that's so funny he said he likes this because it reminds him of his childhood watching WWE got Smackdown happening right here so this was originally built as a Hindu temple but was converted to a Buddhist temple as he was explaining a lot of the Hindu structures were moved on the perimeter and the outside to act as Protectors of the temple and the Buddha statues are inside but as you can see here this wall is all telling Ramayana which is a a Hindu story and it's still preserved it's still here they did not change that which is nice this is the Vishnu God that the temple built dedicated to him he with the four arms standing on the top of the we have Vishnu and Veasna here Vishnu here Veansa here all right you're a God in my eyes look at this view standing very and you can do this photo like this like both of you stand behind the column and like show your face like this okay yeah yeah so these are Celestial dancers there's over a thousand of them carved into the walls around here and what are the name of the celestial dancers Apsara Apsara Apsara the attention to detail and the fact that like how was this even built mindblowing to think how they were able to build something with such specific very intricate detail now we're going even further inside past another wall we not yet climbing up to the top we're going to go this way okay we walk close to the building over there it is the library we have a six libraries in total inside Angkor Wat you saw two already at the front and then we come to the first level there are two here and then we climb up to the second level there are two more over there so six in total was there anything preserved in the libraries no we couldn't find any while preserved document there only the ancient inscription on the wall that we found it today you will see hundreds of pieces ancient writing inside this Temple let's go there I will show you the Royal pool Royal pool yeah where the people in that town swim like the high ranking people like royalty family they swim inside that let's go there okay not kind of swimming like chill but uh like related to the religious practice okay yeah let's go there check this out these plants when you touch them Watch What Happens they close the leaves are open right now see and I touch it and it just goes to sleep sleepy plants sleepy sleep you go to sleep now sleep so crazy wow so that's the library we just walked up these stairs vishna was just telling us how this is a very special place right here mostly because of the Acoustics people come here you put your back against the wall and you tap your chest three times hard wow nice three times wow be blessed be blessed tap your chest three times wow the sound vibrates the Acoustics in there when you hit your chest or make any noise it reverberates off the wall and just sounds like who it's really cool that's known as a a blessing have pool here these are the pools yeah four pools one two and two more on the other side okay and they build it very symmetrical yeah one on the left one on the right we had a train open over there that why we don't see any water here oh yeah the corner yeah dra over there drain off the water quick when it rain all the water collect into the pool and it drain off quickly outside like the water system I'm still working well today so this spot right here is the exact center of anchor wat and this group they're looking at it they put a compass down in the middle because it perfectly faces West and you telling us before how it even aligns with the Stars with the sun yeah Equinox happen two times a year like 21st of March and 21st of September a lot of people coming here for seeing the sun coming up behind the main tower it's amazing just the fact that they were able to build this entire structure and complex so precisely that it perfectly aligns with the stars and the Equinox how how did they do that I on it yeah I want to wait for this group to leave so we can go step through I think I'm going to like get some magical powers I think so you think I should take my shoes off yeah do the honors hold my I need send Qui wow how's it feel amazing tap your chest all no echoes in here this is the exact center of anchor wat right here can look see the main doorway where we in the it just play straight to the West so that's West that way yes they didn't have Compass or an iPhone to put on the floor like we just did magnets they had magnets yeah maybe maget they using that time can use a magnetic rock volcanic volcanic rock has magnetic and you said in here there are something built out of with made with volcanic rock yeah we have a lot of volcanic rock when you go inside you will see some part inside the building when they they take out the sandstone and they see the volcanic rock inside is the core of the building really yeah the basement of the building it fill up with okay so maybe and that's how they can tell which direction things are facing using magnetic volcanic rock probably I'm pretty sure you can make a compass with um like hematite and water and a piece of metal huh so maybe they knew that yeah so now we're going up to the third level of anchor wat and as you can see here these are the original staircases extremely steep they don't actually let TS on these because it's a little dangerous I don't know if you could really tell how steep that is but like 75° slope really steep but they made a wooden staircase with hand and a slightly less steep slope so we're going to go walk up this wooden staircase now there are a lot of people going up and there's even a line to get inside I feel like I'm in Disney World now so this right here is the highest building in cm reap 65 M high and there's a law you're not allowed to build any building higher than this in cm re these steps are not as steep as the original ones but still very steep yeah this kind of scary yeah we made it to the top oh wow you can see see the view from here amazing so beautiful I love how we're just surrounded by jungle like we are in nature around here trees so GRE monkeys this is the center oh wow look at that it feels so special to be up on this top level it feels like we're almost not supposed to be here like a sacred area we are I know supp for the king it's supposed to be for the king but I I'm just astonished I'm just constantly amazed everywhere you look in here fascinating details beautiful art structures just even the way the roof is built like look at that details everywhere the Five Points four on each corner or one on each corner and the large one right in the middle now we get a view of anchor wat from the back look at that so beautiful so vishna was just explaining to us how this is a UNESCO World her site so it's it's protected and there's a lot of rules and regulations that you have to follow but up until like about 10 years ago he was saying there there were not rules so people would come here like along this River or this uh this Lake and have barbecues and he was saying when he was a kid he would go swimming in which pools that's the moat we swim in the moat in the moat so this is a moat okay in the time we just climb up the tree and we dive into the water wow yeah fun yeah but can't do that anymore no more swimming in here there's a lot of regulations to protect this place which rightfully so because there are a lot of tourists who come here now so you need to have rules in place or else tourists would ruin it all right back in the Tuk Tuk cold water thank you nice what's thatc spring roll right oh local spring roll roll local spring roll it's a cold towel that's so funny don't eat it nice oh it smells good can squeeze the water out and yeah put on your face or wash your hand looks smells so good yeah just mint mint yeah just mint makes me want to eat it I'm hungry Jasmine Jasmine jine Jasmine so right now we just made it to the next Temple it's called top room top room but what do most people call it most of the tourists call it Tomb Raider Temple and right now it's also very popular for the local people to call this name Tomb Raider yeah Tomb Raider all right because of the Hollywood movie yeah it changed so this is where they filmed Tomb Raider in 2001 they filmed here they spent here for one week one week here wow okay there is there some local Men playing Amazing Music over here and I really want to show you that I didn't film as we were walking by uh but on our way out I want to show you the sign they have I read the first sentence I want to read more it said something about we sto begging we play this music we just want to send our children to school and have a better life and I I noticed they were selling CDs of their music so I want to want to check that out on the way out and maybe we can help him a little bit by supporting their business this is a library or that is the library was the library and one more the other it's gone already you can see the basement oh just the foundation is left over here that looks so cool wow most part of the building it collabed on the floor what you can see today it already restore many parts already restored but this is the most uh ruin compared to the other building inside the whole park the most ruined this one the most the most ruined coll the most collapsed one welcome to the Tomb Raider Temple this is all restored but previously there was no entrance like this you'd have to climb over the stones in order to get inside it was all looking like this right yeah like this this is how it looked before the restoration wow they collab everywhere it's kind of nice how they kept this section to show this is what it looked like before they restored it the history when we keep the the condition of the the temple like this and we restore some po so telling history to the people yeah it's time to raid some tombs the temple here it was completely abandoned when our King decided to move the city from s to Ping in the year 1432 1432 we abandoned this area and then like the nature the tree start growing up and some part of the building like destroyed by the time the nature and the Civil War made it even worse these trees are insane how they're growing on these structures look at this path wow it's so beautiful thank you I feel like I'm taking a step back into time we just walk through a time machine oh my goodness the tree on the the other side what what kind of tree is this the look name called SPO s p u n g sp sp yeah Spong Spong tree it's s tree okay wow you could look it's so big look how it's kind of like thin right here so wide what the heck yeah wow look at the legs on this tree there's there was 39 Towers 39 Towers right now only 19 Towers standing today and how old did you say this tree is approximately 4 or 500 year old tree this wow so this is another one of those Towers where it echoes and you can make a noise bang your chest and not only do you hear the echo but you feel the vibration o you feel that Reverb same time yeah ready three two one whoa not not a voice echo but just a wow love that see even that was even that was engineered what over a thousand years ago and they knew how to build something that woulds yeah with the Acoustics is that what that's called I hit my chest really hard it kind of hurts now all right here we go here's the famous tree wow oh the way the sun's peing there a lot line to get a photo with the tree you ever waited in line to take a photo with a tree I think so another tree are you kidding me this the whole Temple's just filled with amazingly cool trees that is the spot where anina jul she picked the flower and then she fall in front of the doorway cuz she chasing she was chasing the girl in the movie like she walking around this area and then the girl disappeared and she saw the doorway over that she walked to the big tree over there it's nice movie I really like it so here's the tree body and here's the tree booty wow look at this one so there's there's carvings of different creatures all over you see you have people doing different poses and this looks like a cattle of some sort and then a dinosaur what looks like a stick osaurus stegosaurus we roaming around here why is there a Stegosaurus a lot of people say they we're still around maybe this building is over older than a thousand years H that's pretty crazy here check this out traditional music band's victim of landmine play and benefit and find out the generous ladies and gentlemen to support daily family's life and for the future of our children at [Music] school have one of these all right thank you beautiful music thank you [Music] wow [Music] the CD yeah we bought a CD support these local people who unfortunately are victims of landmines can you explain maybe a little bit about why they're what the landmines are and what these people are victims from this Civil War that happened in Cambodia 197 to 1980 that Cambodia was like a glass that broken into many pieces and supported by different country like America China Russia and they fight in the whole Kingdom yeah and then they buried all the mine in the ground everywhere in the country yeah it's still the big problem for the development of Cambodia today yeah yeah especially for Farmer that they try to spread their Farm V and then they get into that landmar area and they got inured until today still still today yeah so I don't know if you noticed but the men playing music they were missing limbs someone had a missing arm someone had a missing leg and they're victims of landmine explosions and I've noticed some people in town as well they play music and it's a nice way to help support these people who who can't maybe work in the traditional ways they were used to right so they were previously farmers who now are injured and they can't actually work with farming but they learn these instruments and it sounds beautiful and I I notice you know as I travel there are people who ask for help right and I try to support as many people as possible um there are people begging in different parts of different countries but I really try and support people who are trying to provide some type of service in exchange for something like these you know these men aren't just begging they're providing something they're providing music yeah so traditional music music in the wedding what's that in the wedding yeah it's traditional wedding music yeah yeah Kamar kamay how do you pronounce kamay Kamar Kamar Kamar wedding music traditional instruments recorded and produced by handicap community to Temple what flavor you have Taro yeah Taro ice cream let's see what's the ice cream look like one um how much for one $1 $1 yeah okay I'll take two yeah uh how about you you want here you you take one no no thank you please you what flavor T is okay or coconut coconut okay coconut what about you what flavor you want coconut here let's provide our tour guide dri come on you can take a break for a minute you want one no no no thank you are you sure he's driving he's driving all right all right thank you um how about green beans green beans I'll try green beans that sounds interesting I've never had a green bean ice cream oh first I'm GNA get some ice [Music] cream okay let me put uh babe can you hold this let me get him some some money sorry hold on let me pay for his ice cream first yeah uh I need small change no change how much is this this one 50,000 50,000 yeah it's okay you keep for you yeah okay than [Music] you okay my friend thank you so you're welcome thank you you're welcome what is this on a flute flute yeah two for five two for five yeah oh boy oh boy I'm overwhelmed what they want ice cream can I can I get them ice cream no no no you don't want ice cream you can have ice cream for free you just want money hold on let me one second uh I don't have any small bills one but there two this is hard this is very hard because I only have big bills and yeah okay for you too what do we got what do we got more yeah thank you okay and then you you share that yeah okay I got a bunch of things I got I got uh magnets and flutes you're welcome byebye for Christmas um how much did you give them uh 50,000 $12 $12 yeah a that man was so happy about the ice cream that was nice yeah the boy he was asking me for money and then he pointed the ice cream I'm like we'll buy ice cream yeah I don't know I'm I'm a little sometimes hesitant to buy things from the kids because I don't really I don't like I I feel bad because you know the kids are out here just trying to get money but sometimes if you if you give the kids money it prevents them from going to school and things you know I really prefer to support like the older people who are out here and working but sometimes I just can't help myself and I just got to buy something hard it's hard to say no it really is hard to say no but all right let's enjoy this ice cream I got green bead ice cream Buddha's face everywhere huh all these all these towers you know how many faces there are that's a lot there are 54 Towers okay and right now we have only 36 Tower left one Tower four faces all right so many places looking at you bud is watching Dance Celestial dancers oh Celestial dancers and what how do you say it again absara absara a name even right here too right of them called absara means celestial daners yeah we saw in a restaurant they did AB dance the danc I like the way they they move their finger like how do they do that it's so slow too very precise and slow you need to train your finger like Co against the wall like this C let to see yeah they trained from the young age some dancers wow I saw some Lal training today like every morning they try to exercise their finger B is against the wall to make like that yeah their hands are curved backwards like let us see yeah wow that's crazy wow look at those Paces in the Rock and over here on the wall in Anchor watt the carvings were depicting the the ramayana which is the story of the the gods but this carving here is depicting what life was actually like during the 12th century 12th century wow and this is the military procession you can see a group of army here with the armor and the high ranking general and Commander they are on top of elephants and this is the Cambodian Army you can see they have the big ear long ear big long ear they want to have the Buddha ear good L long life intellectual that why you can see all of them with the long ear they use the big earring to strike the air longer and bigger we also got a support from China have a look at this support from China yeah oh w wow the Diplomatic tie between Cambodia and China in the 12th century very close and in that time Cambodia always have the conflict against uh jampa the ancient Kingdom that located in the central part of Vietnam today but Jaa it lost to Vietnam like 600 years ago you couldn't see it on the world map today but it used to be the uh the part of central Vietnam yeah jampa the ancient Kingdom they always fighting each other against the Kamai Empire here or Cambodia today yeah so we got a support from China that Army you can see they high CH on their hat with the Beards yeah they look Chinese number seven he riding the whole Sil there up there oh right there yeah with his bodyguard holding the umbrella protect protect him from the Sun wow with flying FS military they are supplier all those people carry food carry weapons all the military supplies with the ox card here or traditional TK Tok today yeah the ox cart Ox cart wow with the monkey in the tree very detailed see monkey here they had a gold under the C here it must be for Barbe queue huh like it's so deep it's it's it's actually carved pretty pretty Deep Off the Wall to help preserve it for a long time but even the details like in the eyes and the mouth and the ears you could still see it very prominent wild and a wild boar down here look at this it look funny here see his angry face huh he's is she Tsing him like she hold the turtle and let the turtle by his but what and look at his face angry face yeah why you letting that turtle bite me lady what are these guys doing down here uh life daily life yeah have a look at this he look funny here what is he doing is he making a fire or is he smoking something yeah it look like someone smoking V here yes or someone say he making fire but it does look like he's smoking be right yeah this is the people who living along the bat of the river and this is inside the River tle South Lake the biggest lake in Southeast Asia it connect with the m why the CH people invaded into Cambodia through the Waterway with the truck this is charm people cha cha Kingdom the people call CH people see the Cambodian army or Kai army fall into the water and eaten by the crocodile over there oh look at the crocodile free dinner for the crocodile wow some people do hunting and they run away escape the wild light like climbing out the tree over there yeah there so much to look at you could spend a whole day just looking at these walls a lot of dead body look at this oh these are dead bodies yeah dead body the the lady giving bir yeah this is the pregnant ladies wife yeah gambling gambling [ __ ] fighting between Chinese and Cambodian wow see the rooster here maybe wild train Roost there and they're holding a pack maybe a pack of gold look at this they're betting on them they're betting wow I would have never been able to depict all of this like I would have just looked at this for a minute and went oh that's cool and just looked at some things but having him here with us to be able to explain all of this is so helpful it's time to work hard again those people start building the Temple the where they cut the stone make the whole lot the stone you can see the the tool they use here all the hand tool Hummer chisel X yeah try to C the stone carry the stone wow maybe the want to show people today like it was not built by alien my people build it yeah wow yeah this is how they did it right here and then they Illustrated how they built this we just made it back to the hotel but before I end this video I have two very important things I want to say first something I want to say about this experience today and second something I'm a little upset about about my time in Cambodia so first anchor wat and I want to talk about our experience with a guide because we initially were not even planning on getting a guide it's not necessary you can just go pay the entrance fee which is $35 a person which by the way we paid online which I recommend it's a lot easier uh just you have your digital tickets and they scan it every time you go in some places and you can just do that which we were going to do we were just going to go by ourselves we even have we're driving our own Tuk Tok right now so we were going to drive ourselves there but I am so glad that we did not just go on our own because we would have not had anywhere near the experience we had having our guide with us he provided so much information and it really made the experience so much more enjoyable it would have been nice to just walk around and look at things and take photos and videos but I would not have known what I was looking at he shared so much of the history all the details we were looking at it was very interesting and again just made the experience a 100 times more enjoyable so that's my first recommendation if you're coming to Anor watt I highly recommend you spend a little extra money and you get a guide I'm going to leave his information and the team actually who I met today La I'm going to meet leave their company's information in the description we paid $35 a person to go um this is not sponsored at all I just want to support them because they are great people and they made our experience a lot better next thing I want to say something I'm disappointed about in my time in Cambodia is the lack of time that I have here in cm re dog's barking with me I regret not spending more time here in cm reap I think a lot of people come to this area because of ankor wat it's super famous and it brings a lot of tourists here but there is so much more to do around the city and just outside of this city that unfortunately I'm not actually even going to be able to do this time in just two day tomorrow we start our Tuk Tuk tournament activities we have a whole orientation day and the next day we actually begin the tournament and we leave CM reap so there's a few things that I'm not going to be able to do on this trip so I'm going to have to come back to Cambodia and explore more of this area there's a national park north of here that maybe we will get to do during the tournament but there's like a dozen other things that I really want to do that I just don't have time to do so I my biggest regret is not spending more time here I'm really looking forward to traveling around this country the reason I actually came here was to participate in What's called the Tuk Tok tournament I've been doing this event for the past few years in Sri Lanka where there's a company called tukk rental that makes it very easy for foreigners to rent Tuk TK and drive yourself around which is an incredibly unique experience and I just love it I love the company they're a social business so they don't actually own any of the tuktok they have local people local families own the Tuk TS and the company just facilitates all the logistics to make it really easy for everybody and they provide you with everything you need insurance license all the good stuff so actually here you do need to get your International driving permit whatever we're going to be spending the next couple weeks traveling around this beautiful country driving ourselves in a Tuk Tuk competing in a travel Challenge and I would love to invite you to join Along on these Adventures so please consider sub subscribing so you can follow more of these videos and the last thing I request from you that I would really appreciate is if you enjoyed this video please give it a like because it really does help I want to spread this message of Cambodia to more people around the world I really don't think enough people know how amazing Cambodia is and more people deserve to know about this so if you have any interests in traveling to Cambodia stop thinking just do it book that ticket come here this place I've only been here for a couple days and I'm already in love the people the culture the food the nature it's so welcoming everybody's so friendly it's very affordable too still feels like a bit of a Hidden Gem and I'm sure as more people learn about this more and more people are going to continue coming here so come here sooner rather than later all right I hope you enjoy this video I'll see you in the next one peace
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