Ranger Duck Weekends: Cambodia Edition

My humans took me to Cambodia, to see the temples in the Angkor Wat area.  We had a great time!  I finished editing my photos before my humans finished theirs, so I win the race and get to share first.

Our first day, we went straight to the hotel from the airport.  We enjoyed lunch poolside while the humans planned the rest of the weekend, then we went downtown to check out the night market.  I thought the night market was fun, but I didn’t take any selfies there.

Poolside at the hotel restaurant.

Landed in Cambodia! We deplaned directly onto the tarmac and walked to the immigration building.

Siem Reap airport. I found out later that they frown upon picture taking. Oops.

The second day, we got up early to do the “small tour” which includes Angkor Wat, where we went for sunrise.  Then we went to Bayon, the temple with the giant faces; Ta Prohm, the temple featured in Tomb Raider; and Prasat Kravan, which was really small but uncrowded.

Angkor Wat. It was fun to start the day here, at one of the grandest of the temples.

Bayon. The faces on the towers were kind of eerie and kind of cool!

Everyone else was taking these pictures, I wanted to see what the fuss was all about.

Ta Prohm, the jungle temple.

Prasat Kravan, visiting with one of the lion guardians.

The third day we did the “grand tour” which included basically the rest of the temples in the area.  We packed in a lot!  We finished with sunset over a beautiful landscape.  I liked this part of the day best because one of the other tourists saw my humans taking my picture and wanted to take his own picture of me.  It was exciting to be the star of someone else’s vacation photos.  The worst part of the day is when my humans dropped me and left me alone.  I was starting to think about flying back to KL when they came to rescue me.  Whew!

It was strangely exciting to see the world heritage marker!

Banteay Srei with my male human. The carvings at this temple were so detailed, even a duck could appreciate the work.

Banteay Samre was really well preserved.

They left me! Fortunately, they heard my calls for help before too long.

At Pre Rup. There were so many stairs.

Auditioning to be a temple guardian.

Some temples have lions for guardians, Eastern Mebon had elephant guardians.

Ta Som was another “jungle temple.” It was nice of the tree roots to grow around the doorway like this.

Close up at Ta Som.

Preah Khan was huge!

Sunset at Phnom Bankang, where I became famous.

We had big plans for our last day, but my humans were “tired” and opted to just relax at the hotel before our flight.  At least I got to swim!  And they let me sit in the tuk tuk by myself before we went to the airport.

Swimming at the hotel. The garden around the pool made it a really relaxing area.

Tuk Tuk ride! Getting the seat to myself was a nice change from being squashed with the humans.