Upon recommendation of some fellow guest house guests, let's have Indian for breakfast. Definitely more spicy than the fried rice yesterday but manageable. After breakfast/lunch/brunch/whatever I had a feeling this was going to be a super lazy day, but after walking for one hour or so I had enough of the tuktuk requests...(seems the massage ladies are not awake/active yet at 1pm). So I thought the best way to get rid of tuktukmania is to hire a bike and check out the minor stuff of the main thing.
So let's hire a bike
$3? (way too much), in the end I got it for 2 (still way too much, especially since 1/2 day has past already) but whatever, I had enough of the tuktuk guys. "You need to give passport as insurance" "No you cannot have my passport, you can have a copy of my passport (even in police state Burma that was enough)". So she called her boss to ask whether this was ok. It was ok but: "You need to give $50 insurance" -sigh, as if I am going to steal her bike and make my way back to Belgium with it. "No I do not have $50 (well I do but the bike is probably not worth 1/2)" "$20" "No, you can have $10" Call back to ask the boss -sigh- long story short, I got the bike
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| Ta Prohm |
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Well, I have to say..the main thing is much bigger than anticipated and although I was not planning to see the major sites...still pretty big...so proud of myself...more than 30km with this one gear bike (which was not too bad to be honest and the roads are all flat but 30% is gravel). Anyhow, all not very overwhelming but I did catch a glimpse of the attractions why the rest of the world is here. I can understand why this place must have been super awesome 10-20 years ago...I am afraid though that in 10 years there will be a skytrain over the entire site...but the tourist flooding (and all the nastiness it brings..."just one dollar sir" - if you give in every time you hear this you are spending $1000 a day here) was kind of expected.
So not a complete lost day in the end...which is nice
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