After a wander around A.W we cycled on to Angkor Thom, our favourite of all the temples we visited. It has the most amazing faces carved into the stone towers.
We then simply cycled around for a few hours, we must have covered about 25km. To be honest we tried to find some temples we hadn’t done previously but we took a wrong turning so just enjoyed the ride. This area of Cambodia is completely flat and so it was a very easy journey, the light was amazing and we made the most of having a hot sunny Christmas day! Recounting to each other how our families ‘do’ Christmas and how we might do it in the future.
Christmas Day, mode of transport
Angkor Thom
Back for showers and then the plan was to have a ‘Cambodian BBQ’ and a quiet night as we had a tuk tuk collecting us at 7.30 the next day for the bus ride back to Bangkok.
Cambodian BBQs rock!
Essentially it is a round hot plate that is domed with a wide lip around the side. A gas flame is below the hotplate, soup is poured into the wide lip and heated, noodles and vegetables are added, then on the domed part you cook your meats. The meat juices run into the soup and you have yourself a very delicious Christmas dinner!
You can pick your meats and we were fairly cautious, avoiding snake and frogslegs, instead going for chicken, beef, prawns, crocodile and ostrich. Our favourite was the Ostrich, crocs are chewy! I managed to peel the King Prawns, but missed Melissa as she is chief Prawn peeler for me whenever I eat them, Meli you would have been so proud of me!
Again we got chatting to the table next to us, two guys in their late 40s from London. We ended up joining them in quite a lot of beer drinking and i do believe a couple of shots of sambuca were partaken in. So much for the quiet, early night! We had a giggle with them and one of them had lived in Oz so had some tips for where to visit when we get there.
Back to the hotel for a speedy pack up ready for the bus on Boxing Day to take us back to Bangkok.
We really missed our families on Christmas day and I especially missed the Christmas Eve Olive Branch tradition but we had such a fantastic time, a beautiful day seeing beautiful things and it was lovely to just hang out together.
You can pick your meats and we were fairly cautious, avoiding snake and frogslegs, instead going for chicken, beef, prawns, crocodile and ostrich. Our favourite was the Ostrich, crocs are chewy! I managed to peel the King Prawns, but missed Melissa as she is chief Prawn peeler for me whenever I eat them, Meli you would have been so proud of me!
Again we got chatting to the table next to us, two guys in their late 40s from London. We ended up joining them in quite a lot of beer drinking and i do believe a couple of shots of sambuca were partaken in. So much for the quiet, early night! We had a giggle with them and one of them had lived in Oz so had some tips for where to visit when we get there.
Back to the hotel for a speedy pack up ready for the bus on Boxing Day to take us back to Bangkok.
We really missed our families on Christmas day and I especially missed the Christmas Eve Olive Branch tradition but we had such a fantastic time, a beautiful day seeing beautiful things and it was lovely to just hang out together.
Also a very special hello to a little someone, best news ever. Miss you, Super excited x
Cambodian BBQ, with ostrich
Perfect Cambodian Christmas Dinner!
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