So we left Phnom Penh and took a 6 hour bus ride to Siem Reap. On the bus we met two awesome guys: Matt (from London) and Lenny (from Holland).
We ended up all four going to the same guest house-as when you get off the bus you are horded by tuk tuk drivers just yelling and surrounding you to go with them-I got so overwhelmed Matt came in to save the day and swooped us up and got us all a tuk tuk together.<-Here are Matt (red shirt) and Lenny on our last night together. Nicest room we've stayed in at The Smiley Guesthouse. We got a room with hot water AND air con! It was amazing! :) $12/us a night. That night the four of us went out til very very late-got dinner and went to a few bars on this big street called: Pub Street. Which, btw, is the cutest street ever! :)
It was so nice, and there are SO many travelers so you meet SO many people. It was SO fun!! :) Because we didn't get much sleep that night, we all decided to check out Angkor
Wat for sunset and then see the sunrise the following day.
Sunset was beautiful there: it was a really impressive and
incredible sight: Angkor Wat. We only had a short time to be there as the sunsets right when
they close so we all just took pictures and walked around a bit before it started to rain
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.Then we called it a bit of an early night after going out to dinner on a street BEHIND pub street which was REALLY REALLY posh. So cute!<-Becca and I at sunrise.
The next morning Matt, Becca, and I woke up at 4:30am to go to Angkor Wat. We probably should have woken up at 4am to see the sunrise; but we got there as it was rising so it was still
a really beautiful sight. After that we explored Angkor Wat for a while and then went on with
our tuk tuk driver to Ta Prohm (The temple that TOMB RAIDER was filmed at) which was INCREDIBLE!! The trees growing around the temple were unlike anything I've ever seen.
It was amazing. We also went to Angkor Thom which was WICKED! So amazing; I can't believe these temples have survived so long; and even through the khmer rouge. Although many have been completely destroyed and they are
trying to rehabilitate but the Khmer rouge also destroyed the blue prints for all of it so it's hard to figure it out.
<-Ta Prohm
<-Bayon & Angkor Thom
It's so sad to realize I am going home in a week. Not that I am not excited to see all of you and be back at home; but 5 weeks was not enough time. I think I really got the groove of it down in Cambodia and settled in; and now it's time to go.
Cambodia is my favorite country because it's not quite booming yet. I hope you go there within the next 5 years; because I reckon it will become much more Western in the next 5 years and change loads. I like it more than Laos because of the intense history that is STILL alive there. The begging, esp with kids, can be a bit much to handle at times. The constant: "You buy you buy" gets tiring and hard to deal with. But the country is so beautiful in so many ways. Really incredible. When I go on my travels again next year I plan on going back to Siem Reap. I want to see the rest of the temples and volunteer at an orphanage.
I met more people in Cambodia than anywhere else and really enjoyed the country in everyway. 
It was all the travelers that have inspired me to go home, work my butt of and save my money, so next year I can buy a one-way ticket out and travel til I run out of funds. Everyone I met had been traveling for like 3 months and still had another 9 or so; had been to so many countries and were still planning on traveling for like a year or more!! I just can't imagine a better time to see the world and learn about yourself and other people and places than now while I'm yougn and still pretty unattached to anything. Thank goodness I'm an actress. :) Allows for lots of flexibility! AND you can't grow as an actor if you dont' grow as a person. I know for a fact I have changed and grown a lot from this trip and really really am itching to keep traveling. It's so sad that I have to leave!!! BUT I am missing hugging my mom everyday and seeing all of you, definitely.
Our last day in Siem Reap we went to a hotel and used their pool to relax and swim and beat the heat. Then we flew into Kuala Lumpur and sat around for 4 hours due to our lay-over playing chess, same same but different ( a game we titled after the most popular saying we've heard among our travels). Then finally we arrived here:
Paradise. aka: Kuta beach, Bali.
Full of beautiful surfers and Indonesians. Surfboards everywhere you look, beautiful beaches, tan bodies, pure and total HOLIDAY. I can't believe I have to leave here. It's incredible! We got in last night a bit late, grabbed some dinner then went out to an AMAZING reggae club!! Danced until 5am. Came home and then when we woke up this morning we had lunch and laid on the beach.
I got a massage; but I got tricked and ripped off. It's okay; I've learned my lesson and in USdollars it really isn't that much so it's fine. After that we just went to a different spot on the beach and while I was in the water a local, Danny Boy, and I started talking. He's been taking care of a girl from California who's stuck here until her Emergency passport arrives because she lost her first one. He's going to take us surfing tomorrow morning and then get us to his friends that snorkel!! :) It should be wicked! I'm very excited.
There is SO much to do here it's insaine! I can't wait!! I am living it up as much as I can.
Will do my best to write again before I head home; but I can't promise, as I said: I am surrounded by the beach, surfers, reggae music, and friendly people for only 6 more days. Gotta live it up!! :)
Love you all and be home so soon!! :)
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