Good morning how you doing today? It's another beautiful day
Haven't got sunshine yet, but no problem but today, after breakfast I'm going to
introduce you to seam reap and angkor wat so this morning
I'm going to wander into the town of Siem Reap shame around there a little
bit then after lunch I'm going to get my remork driver and we're going to go and buy
my tickets and I'll show you how to buy a ticket to get into Angkor Wat or at
the Angkor City, then we're going to go in and have a little look round and have our first
sunset in Siem Reap. First sunset in Cambodia. So welcome aboard
let's start by getting breakfast.
So this is where you buy your ticket to Angkor Wat.
Ground tickets inside.
So I'm gonna head in now
buy my ticket
And my goodness I thought I'd come at this time of day rather than in the
morning because it'd be a bit quieter but, not so.
Now what are the windows for?
1, $37 one day, one day one day one day oh my goodness
Aha, three days, sixty-two, this looks like a better queue for me
buying the tickets
and there's three sets of counters
the first I think twenty, are one-day tickets only
one day is 37 US dollars
then as you move further up
there's tickets for three days
which is 62 dollars
and for seven days which is 72 dollars
and you can, have to
get in the right queue so if you queue for ages and get in the $3.00 you know the
wrong queue they'll just send you the other one.
When you do get to the front
of the queue it's really fairly easy
you just, they take a picture of you automatically
you say which country you're from
they then,
wait a minute just getting my ticket to show you
you then pay your thing I paid thirty seven dollars and you get your ticket, with your photo on it
$62, it's got all the details on it
basically every time you enter the Angkor city complex it gets a hole punched in it
okay, what was I saying, all about tickets yes
so every time you go in and out of Angkor Wat
I'll just make sure I'm recording still
I am still recording,
they stamp your ticket
but they only stamp your ticket after a certain time
okay I'll give
you more information about that later in the meantime sun is coming out
let's get a sunset
ah hey we got there
woah long queues
"and now we go to Angkor Wat?" yep please, thank you
Welcome to angkor wat at sunset
and you can tell you're getting close when the
traffic gets a bit congested
I see all sorts of bicycles, people walking people on the remorks
but we have made it to Angkor.
Now Angkor is actually a city Angkor Wat is the big main temple
that we're gonna go and see sunset at tonight
I'll give you some more descriptions on the differences between those at a later date
As for the moment, I'm gonna go to the water's edge just up here
because you didn't come all this way to Cambodia to see this did you?
No, you came to see Angkor Wat.
So I'm gonna turn you around now
and you can see lots of people
but over there, is Angkor Wat.
I'm going to walk you over there now.
I'll have to do you a walking sunset
Because believe it or not
it's not sunset time
as you can see sun is still up
clouds are looking beautiful
I got to my position
and suddenly a lady blowing a whistle saying no it's closed closed we close at
5:30 got to leave now
It's 5:39 so that's fair enough but I
thought they'd have managed until sunset but no you get kicked out
so I'm filming
while walking slowly we're filming the sunset while I slowly walk back to the
exit so you can at least get some sunset this evening
Sorry I couldn't get you sunset
behind the buildings
looks like I'm gonna have to get my sunrise spot
but you can get in before sunrise,
but you can't stay after sunset
I suppose that sort of might make sense
I suppose what they're worried about is that after
sunset it's dark and there's no lights in here
and it would probably be
dangerous for everybody stay in here
and you'd always get some idiot trying to
stay in overnight which would cause a security problem
so sort of fair enough
that they clear the place out before it gets dark
but what a beautiful sunset
hey I mean look at that
I'm sorry if it's a little bit wobbly it's a walking sunset
I am walking as slowly as I can I'm not that good at walking slowly
Let me just er, there we go
I've found a walk way.
But that's beautiful.
So you haven't seen much in the way of
buildings for tonight
but we did get a nice sunset so I haven't really shown you
much of Angkor or Angkor Wat yet
I showed you how to get a ticket.
Showed you what the road like is here.
And I showed you some sunset amongst some palm trees but no
no ancient buildings maybe
But the plan for tomorrow,
dare I say it, is to get up at sunrise
no no, get up an hour before sunrise
oh that's ugly hey?
Then get here
watch the sunrise over Angkor Wat.
Since we can't really get a sunset
That's beautiful hey?