The plan for today was to visit the 'Angkor National Museum' in the morning and later in the evening experience the sunset at Angkor Wat .The 2 day temple pass gives visitors a 3rd free day!
We were also checking in at a new hotel 'The Lay Sung residence' at 2 pm today.
NiTa was back again with his tuk tuk today. After breakfast , it was a pleasant morning ride to the 'Angkor National Museum' .The adult ticket costs USD 12 and USD 6 for the kids below 12.
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| Angkor National Museum |
The 'Angkor National Museum' is a world class must visit museum with multiple galleries , audio visual displays and thousands of artifacts , and I would recommend to visit it before the temples so that you can make sense of many things that you see at the temples.
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| Angkor National Museum |
We were at the the museum for more than 3 hours , but one may easily spend a whole day there if he is more into history , arts , Hindu mythology.The museum also houses a souvenir/gift shop .The high end duty free shopping center adjacent to the museum can be given a miss.
Check this official museum site for details.
Family had lunch at an Indian restaurent named 'Curry Walla' while returning back to the hotel .I wasn't yet hungry after the heavy breakfast.
Once back at the 'Rithy Rine Angkor residence', completed our check out formalities. I liked this hotel for its location.Its right next to night market , pub street , restaurants , massage centers , but still away from the crowd!
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| Pool side@Rithy Rine Angkor Residence |
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| TukTuk ride to 'The Lay Sung Residence' hotel |
After checking out of 'Rithy Rine Angkor residence' , NiTa dropped us at our new hotel 'The Lay Sung Residence' where we would be staying for the next 2 nights.
The 'The Lay Sung Residence' is a 8 to 10 mins tuk tuk ride from the city center.It has more open spaces and cottage like rooms.We were welcomed with a welcome drink.
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| The Lay Sung Residence hotel |
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| Pool Side@The Lay Sung Residence hotel |
Had my lunch of chicken rice at the open pool side bar.
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| Chicken rice lunch@the Lay Sung Residence hotel |
The hotel had arranged tuk tuk for the sunset@Angkor Wat.
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| TukTuk gas station! |
Once again got to experience the magnificent Angkor Wat , this time during sunset!
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| Angkor Wat@sunset |
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| Angkor Wat@sunset |
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| Angkor Wat@sunset |
This time also went around to see the bas reliefs which we had given a miss in the first visit.The outer gallery of the temple, shelters these most precious treasures of Angkor Wat, in a total length of more than 600 m.
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| Bas Relief@Angkor Wat |
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| Bas Relief@Angkor Wat |
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| Bas Relief@Angkor Wat |
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| Sunset@Angkor Wat- monks |
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| Bas Relief@Angkor Wat |
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| Bas Relief@Angkor Wat |
Once we were back at the city , spent rest of the evening in shopping/massage/dining ....
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| Man getting Fish massage@night market |
......before heading back to the 'Lay Sung Residence'.
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