We visited Angkor Wat today, a World Heritage site, which is about 3 miles from our house. Angkor Wat can be translated to mean City of Temples, City Temple, or Capital Temple and was once the capital of the ruling Khmer Empire.

Thom can be translated to big, large, or great.  The moat around Angkor Thom is almost 8 miles in perimeter.

It was a good day. We saw a lot, walked for miles, climbed lots of really steep stairs, bumped heads a few times, almost fell a few times, saw a few monkey thefts, and had a really good tuk tuk driver that was taking us where we needed.

Angkor Wat

Entrance into Angkor Thom – a narrow, one way road.

Somebody needs a selfie stick!

Stacked stones within Angkor Thom. I’ve seen this in Nepal as well, apparently a form of offering or prayer.

The monkeys mostly ignored people, but would occasionally steal something from someone.  Annika had 3 on her at one point.

Exhausting but good day.

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