Emily writes · Siem Reap and Angkor Archaeological Park, Cambodia · 5–14 November 2025
We spent most of our time in Siem Reap doing exactly what you would expect a theology graduate and a civil engineering nerd to do. We explored temples.
Angkor Wat was the part I had been waiting for. I had read about the largest religious building in the world for years, and now it was in front of me.
Bryson took far too many photos. We walked slowly through the galleries, stopping at carvings, doorways, and pieces of the structure that caught his engineering eye. It was enormous.
The wider area also includes Angkor Thom, once a capital of the Khmer Empire.
The smaller temples around the old city gave us plenty more to look at.
At Bayon, giant stone faces looked down over the corridors. Bryson and I spent ages ducking into side passages and then running away from monkeys.
At Ta Prohm, tree roots had grown over the buildings. It appeared in Tomb Raider, but I had never seen the film and understood none of Bryson’s references.
Our guide was the Grab driver who picked us up at the airport. He told us so much Cambodian history on the drive to our hotel that we hired him for Angkor the next day. He charged half what the hotel had quoted.
We explored Siem Reap too, including Pub Street, the Old Market, and the Water Festival fireworks.
Back at the hotel, we swam, sat by the pool, and ate. One night the hotel served an unlimited barbecue. That was not a difficult decision.
Between my theology degree and Bryson’s civil engineering brain, we were very easy customers.
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