- Man, I am so overwhelmed by the people here.
I'm extremely overwhelmed.
The history is fascinating and the guide is fantastic
at explaining the detail of this amazing monument
but it's just completely overrun by tourists unfortunately.
It's just very overwhelming.
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- Good day world, we're about to do a temple exploration
here in Cabodia, we have Toque here as our guide,
our private guide.
Amazing guy, he gave us a bit of an introduction
to Angkor Wat and the temples here in Siem Reap.
Robyn Whale.
- Hello.
- How ya feeling?
- Good.
- Come over here.
- We're all ready for our little tour today.
It's exciting.
- So today, Toque is taking us to three temples,
Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, and Ta Prohm.
Three temples and we're gonna give you the highlights
of these three temples today so if you're looking
at coming here you know what to expect.
It's about, what times is it?
8:20 in the morning so this is not a sunrise thing
but you'll get to see exactly what it looks like.
Thanks so much.
- [Toque] And also it will take about one hour and a half
to two hours inside the temple, Angkor Wat temple.
- Yes, all right, lets do this.
- Lets do it!
- Lets go!
All right so we're walking into Angkor Wat
via the west entrance, apparently it's the main entrance.
Ah, the bullet holes.
- Caused by civil war.
- [Brad] Yeah, I saw them before.
- These are the bullet holes.
One here and one here.
- So that was the, we're talking the red soldiers
that were hiding inside Angkor Wat and fighting with the
government soldiers on the other side of the moat
and what you see on the outside of Angkor Wat
are these bullet holes everywhere.
Like this.
The location of the famous sunrise photo
here in Angkor Wat but we're at the wrong time, right?
- Clearly.
- [Brad] The perfect, you get the reflections right here.
- [Robyn] Look at all the lotus flowers.
- [Brad] And the lotus flowers.
And the sun rises over those spires.
But we didn't come here for the sunrise,
we came here just to.
- Check it all out.
- Check it out.
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- So right now, this is the first level.
- [Toque] Yes.
- And then that's the second level.
- [Toque] The third level with the towers there.
- [Brad] Oh, that's the third level.
- [Toque] It was a watching place.
- [Brad] That's the only entrance at the second level?
With lots of people, lots of tourists, huh?
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- Hey guys, so I've literally just walked up this little
section of stairs, it is very, very steep.
Very steep, you have to be really careful.
I don't actually quite know how I'm gonna get down there
again but I'm gonna give it a bash.
There's Brad, our guide down there.
I'll come down.
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- Man I am so overwhelmed by the people here.
I'm extremely overwhelmed.
The history is fascinating, and the guide is fantastic
at explaining the detail of this amazing monument,
but it's just completely overrun by tourists unfortunately.
It's just very overwhelming.
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- [Brad] Guys, we're leaving Angkor Wat,
it's very crowded here.
We're off to the second temple.
Which is the second temple?
- Angkor Thom.
- Bayon.
- Yes, Bayon Temple.
- Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom.
All right, we're gonna get something to eat though,
real quick here, like some sugar or something,
we need a sugar hit.
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- Sugar cane juice here at Angkor Wat.
I had this is Myanmar, they taste absolutely amazing.
They get sugar cane stalks, they put them through a machine,
they grind it up, and juice comes out the other side.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
They usually accept US dollars everywhere,
so that's why I just paid two US dollars for two coconuts.
If you're coming from the US, you don't have to worry
about changing your currency.
Robyn's just got some pineapple.
How much was that?
- One dollar.
- One dollar, one US dollar.
- We can just have a little bit of sugar.
- We're really fading.
We feel really faded right now
after that overly crowded temple experience.
That's really good.
The pineapple's really good.
All right so 11:15 in the morning,
we're at our second temple, called.
- [Toque] Ta Prohm.
- [Brad] Ta Prohm, where the famous 2001 film.
- Called Tomb Raider.
- Tomb Raider with the tree roots and all that.
- The temple was built in the late 12th century
during the reign of King Jayavarman for his mother.
- That's incredible, all right, lets go check it out.
So we're approaching Ta Prohm Temple now,
there's a giant tree growing out of the top of the temple.
It looks quite impressive.
The temple looks like it's completely
not safe to walk through.
So we're just meandering through this pathway here
in Ta Prohm, very crowded, very narrow pathways.
So we're told that this is the most famous spot
here at Ta Prohm with this tree because of the film
Tomb Raider and you can see why with the hundreds of people.
I'll show you.
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- [Brad] Anyway, we're gonna have lunch now
and then check out the third temple
and see what that's like.
It's a quarter past one, done two temples already,
and we're just having lunch inside this restaurant
here near Ta Pohm.
The food is absolutely amazing.
I'm having a traditional amok, right there, with chicken.
It's a traditional Cambodian dish with fried rice.
Rob's, what is that, cause that is amazing right there.
- It's amok curry and I've added chicken.
- [Brad] Inside a coconut.
- Cooked inside a coconut, I don't know, maybe they
cook it or they serve it, whatever, but it comes
in this coconut, and there's pumpkin in there
that's so sweet.
- [Brad] Yeah, really nice.
- It's really delicious.
- [Brad] Thank you very much.
Service, perfect.
- How about the food?
- [Brad] Thank you very much, my friend.
- [Robyn] It was very nice, thank you.
- [Brad] Amazing driver over here.
- Thank you.
- [Brad] Thank you.
- [Robyn] Very nice food, yes, did you have nice food?
- [Toque] Yes, we had together.
- [Robyn] Oh nice.
- [Brad] What did you eat?
Amok?
- [Toque] No, fried chicken.
- [Brad] Fried chicken, not amok.
Well I had amok, it was amazing.
Gotta try it.
All right this is the entrance to Angkor Thom.
Look how narrow, that's like literally
single lane road right there.
Bayon Temple, so when was this built, what year?
- 1200, the late of 12th century.
- [Brad] And this is the temple of faces?
- Yes, 49 towers.
- [Brad] 49 towers.
- If you include all the five towers on the five gates,
the total is 54 towers.
So one tower has more faces, totaling 216 faces.
- [Brad] Unbelievable, that's a lot.
- [Toque] Three to five years.
- [Robyn] That training in that way of dancing
took three to five years.
- [Brad] Three to five years.
- [Robyn] You can see, I mean you'd have to,
it requires a lot of balance, eh?
- All right we're climbing temples.
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- Great service, thank you.
All right, we're finishing up all of our temples, finished.
No more temples, thank you.
All of us.
All right this is the end of our tour,
our private trip here to see three temples
with these amazing guys here.
Toque is our guide, amazing guy, I highly recommend him,
I'll link him up if you like what you saw today,
this is the man to come do your tour with.
Amazing guy, our driver right here, thanks.
- My name's Sokin.
- Sokin, thanks for driving us around today.
- You're welcome.
- We felt very special.
- Thank you.
- Thank you so much, man.
All right that's it, we're gonna rest.
We're super tired, we'll see you tomorrow.
Goodbye.
- See you tomorrow.
- Bye.
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