When You Have Nothing to Say About Angkor Wat

We couldn’t come up with anything that hasn’t been said about Angkor Wat, so we are just going to post our drafts (which we still edited, it was a lot worse). The rough drafts for our posts are usually full with shits and fucks, other profanities and things we find funny but are kind of inappropriate. Occasionally I have a bad mood and I wrote all of this in one such moods.
- We did Angkor Wat during the time when we were still listening to the dumb things other people tell you so we woke up at 4 in the morning to go and see this magnificent sunrise. We are not morning people. Wake us before we want to be awake and we will have a bad mood. A really bad mood. And there’s two of us which makes it worse. We had expected a tranquil temple, the sun rising behind it and the whole scenery mirroring in the still ponds in front of the temple. However, the tranquility was somewhat disturbed by a couple hundred Chinese (for God’s sake, we thought we were rid of you) and Japanese tourists.
- We made it through until the sun came up without using the jungle knife Angela always carries concealed in her panties.
- After sunrise we told our tuktuk driver to find us a quiet spot and he managed to find some spots not infested by more than thirty people at a time, and at some places we actually found ourselves alone, making for a somewhat more pleasant experience, if you don’t count the heat and the fucking mosquitoes.
- After a temple or eighteen and some walking in the sweltering sun we were kind of done with all the goddamn temples and couldn’t wait to see some modern architecture again, so we had ourselves escorted back to Siem Reap, hungry, tired and so fucking sweaty.
We actually did have an amazing day. We have the pictures to show it! We promise to be nice again in our next post.
14 Comments
Steph (@ 20 Years Hence) // // //
Ha ha! I know how you feel—whenever I have too much cussing in my posts, Tony makes me take most (or all) of it out. I guess he doesn’t like it when I go blue.
Early morning wake ups are not our favorite either (though we sure have had a lot of them on this trip). I completely understand why you were cranky, but I will say, your photos are awesome!
Nick // // //
Thanks Steph!
We always carefully redact our posts to make sure nothing slips through, but this time, well, we just didn’t have much to say about Angkor Wat that other bloggers haven’t already said, it’s pretty much a completely covered topic.
Our morning wake-up moods usually depend on the reward, if it’s a beautiful sunrise at a tranquil spot, we’re great. But most other times we tend to get a little cranky 🙂
Becky Padmore // // //
Ha ha love this, very honest! Your photos are beautiful by the way.
Vanessa @ Sauteed Happy Family // // //
haha! Love your honesty! Seriously, travel isn’t all roses and unicorns. Waking up early, airports, tourists, no peanutbutter… all sucks. Sometimes it’s comforting/self-assuring to hear more than just the good side of travel… I’m not the only one who has bad travel days.
p.s. Love the pic of your head peeping up above the ruins!
Marit // // //
Vanessa, do you know Where is Waldo? When I see this picture of my brother behind the rock I think: Got you Waldo!
Nick // // //
I’m sure everyone has bad travel days. It’s not a vacation, it’s life on the road and life everywhere has its bad days every now and then. Most of it is great though!
We did find peanutbutter in 7-eleven’s all around Thailand, and bigger supermarkets in China do to, Angela really craves that stuff sometimes. If you ever NEED peanut butter, like, right now, and you’re in Thailand, 7-eleven!
Agness // // //
Love the post, very honest indeed. I know what you mean as I used to live in Siem Reap, 10 km from the Angkor Wat 🙂
Nick // // //
Thanks Agness! We did like Siem Reap, I’m sure it’s even nicer if you’ve lived there for a while and get to know the city.
I really enjoyed reading your last post by the way, and it’s so true too. Angela would get so many Couchsurfing requests from horny Brazilians or Italians obviously looking for more than a couch to sleep on, it’s crazy!
Agness // // //
By the way, awesome photos!
Frank // // //
I enjoyed this post, everyone always hears about how amazing something was and how they were completely in awe of this blah blah blah.
Traveling isn’t always roses and it’s nice to read that other people have the same shitty experiences that you do sometimes.
Angela // // //
Thanks!:) Traveling isn’t always roses, I like that one because it’s so true. Often times you only read/hear about the great adventures and the awesome things. No one tells you about that day they spent stinking in their bed because they couldn’t be arsed to get up and do something.
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Sally // // //
Haha, your draft posts are hilarious. I remember being in a pretty bad mood at 6am at Angkor Wat!
Your photographs are absolutely beautiful, one of my favourite places in the World, and now I really want to go back!
Angela // // //
Hahah thanks! Yeah I wasn’t at my best that morning 🙂