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Siem Reap

We made it to Siem Reap, Cambodia home of Angkor Wat and the Ankor UNESCO Heritage site.

We are staying in an incredible resort with a huge room and this pool that has a bridge to it and it goes all around a swim up bar. It is pretty chill though. Not a lot of splashing and/or music, just people enjoying the heat and taking a dip.

Angkor Wat is a giant temple that is housed in the Angkor Ancient City which covers 400 Square miles . The Ancient city is comprised of a whole bunch of different Wats and temples and villages. In it's peak the whole ancient city had a population of 700,000 to 900,000.

The Naga, not a cobra or serpent because it has 7 heads!

Reclining Buddha

The pictures that Kerry and I would like to have all over our place but can't have because we usually go without a photographer. 🤣

We then went to several other temples in the UNESCO site called Angkor the ancient city.

Before I get there, our driver explained that all Cambodians drink beer after they work and he promised to have some beer for me in the car, he also explained that on the tab which he didn't know the name of you could win another beer and keep on drinking or a million bucks. Well, he did not disappoint.

I explained that the proper name is a pull tab or poptop and then I explained to Kerry that if you didn't want to litter or expose someone to a cut foot, one would just slip it right back into the can after pulled.

Anyhow, I won him another beer. Oh, yes, and you might notice we are in the car and what you wouldn't notice is that we are driving. He isn't though because he was working and not off work.

Pra Tom

The jungle takes back civilization

Banyon Temple

The faces....

For Ann

A Buddha ready for the rainy season.

The gate with a tug of war for good and evil.

Our guide and photographer, Salon.

Ho Chi Minh City (Siagon)

We made it to the city named after Uncle Ho, and when we left the plane, we got to hear a rendition of the Ballad of Uncle Ho!

Yes, as we arrived at the airport, this started playing over the sound system, and kids started singing. Gotta love Uncle Ho. Well, back to our regular programming.

We didn't realize where we were staying, but the Rex Hotel is a famous hotel because it was the headquarters for news and spies during the Vietnam War. Every day at 5:00 p.m., military leaders held meetings there (5 o'clock follies) to tell reporters what was happening, which became world-famous. It’s a place where history’s biggest secrets were traded over drinks at the rooftop bar.

Our travel day evening walk.

The Time Square Building entrance. Those are all peacock feathers.

This is the Opera House

The War Remnant Museum

This is the only picture I took. It was a very difficult museum to see, and it stopped us from going to the Cu Chi Tunnels, especially after the Iran War started on the day we visited.

Independence Palace

The Independence Palace is where the Vietnam War officially ended. In 1975, a big North Vietnamese tank crashed right through the front gates, which signaled that the war was over and the two sides were becoming one country again.