So with good intentions of taking some nice photos today I got up at 5.15 and got a Tuk Tuk back past the already busy Angkor Wat straight to Bayon temple (one with the big faces) I got there at about 6 and it was still pitch black, headed straight into the temple and set up my tripod to take a photo of the moonlit ruins, go to turn the camera on and guess what! I bloody forgot to bring my battery! So after about 10 minutes of cursing and considering going back home to get it (would have taken too long) I decided to stay and just enjoy it, watching the sunrise with bats screeching and going to sleep, birds screeching and waking up, giant 1000 year old faces looking down on me and only about 4 other people there whom 90% of the time I couldn’t see! It was simply amazing, it felt as if I was the first person to be here in hundreds of years - then and there I decided I was coming back here next chance I get. I left Bayon at about 7.15, the sun had come up but it was fairly cloudy so no beautiful morning sunlight (I would have been cursing even more about not being able to take photos if there was) I headed back to the hotel and Bec was awake but still in bed. We had breakfast and then I had a quick sleep and then off to catch our flights to Bangkok, then after a brief visa scare in Bangkok we continued on to Koh Samui in another little propeller plane, an hour and a half later we arrived in Koh Samui where it was a nice hot 31 degrees, we were picked up by our hotel and driven to pretty much the other side of the island which took about 45 min. After checking in we headed out to check out whats near us, found the beach and a nice little pizza place on the sand so we had some pizza and beer on the sand watching the waves roll in, it was really beautiful.
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