Angkor Howard Hotel Siem Reap

... sacrificing most weekends and working hard to get the Orphanage cleaned to a suitable standard to allow the children to return, as well as being on call to the project leader to help support the kids in their temporary home, and entertaining them through so much disruption.

Sadly a number of the team have headed home this week and it has been a series of emotional farewells, and I feel we may be seeing some of them again in the near future. It will also mean ...

... huge ant bit my toe ... for no reason! I didn't realise till I had a sharp pain on my toe and looked down to see this massive ant biting me!!! It's fair to say his life ended at that moment - and so did most of his friends!
The next day the rain finally stopped so we went walking through the town. Flood waters were still pretty bad - and we had to wade through some pretty deep water in parts to get into town.
Its funny because at home there would be people trying to fix the ...

... river, I had a lovely coconut - full of flavour.

then came the touting from all of the young children, they ride up to you in their little tin/steel washing up bowls and then try and sell you everything for one dollar! some of them get really angry if you don't buy what they are selling. sometimes they are not selling anything just asking for money.

I had a snake around my arm even ...

... was easy to walk through the wilderness but soon it became very dense and quite difficult.

I started panicking because I was surrounded by dense forests and there wasn't a trail in sight. I'd been lost for an hour now and I was getting really tired and hungry. Finally I got my bearings and realized that all I had to do was get to the river that produced the waterfall I'd seen earlier. I slowly worked my way through the thick jungle until I finally ...

... clambering over ruins and up vertiginous staircases in the sweltering heat. For me, the most stunning was Ta Prohm, a temple left to become overgrown by trees, the roots and branches bleeding over the rocks as a testament to the site’s antiquity. Truly breathtaking.

As we walked around, we found ourselves accompanied by swarms of children trying to sell us trinkets. Of course, this isn’t unique to Cambodia, but what I hadn’t expected ...

... 45 minutes. The nurse said the wound looks great and that we don't have to come back until Sunday (two days) which is longer than they had originally told us. Before leaving, Matt asked for crutches because it was really hurting to walk but the funny thing is, crutches only come in kid sizes apparently. Just kidding about the kid sizes, but seriously the crutches were ridiculously small on Matt. His nurse held the crutches up to his shoulder for a visual measurement and laughed ...

... him to decide some other sites that could fill the day. He stopped at Prasat Kravan along the way and we spent less than an hour exploring the small site. Prasat Kravan, a temple dedicated to Vishnu, had five towers, but only the central tower was intact. The top part of the remaining four towers had collapsed. The bas-reliefs in two towers were ...