Cambodia

These pictures were taken at Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, and several other temples that were built in the early 12th century. They were initially Hindu, then Buddhist, and it is the largest religious site in the world. The temples stretch over hundreds of square miles. We took a tuk tuk at 5 am to avoid the crowds
and toured some of the best ones.

This one temple was great- I was busy trying to catch a butterfly and a monk came over with a big smile on her face. She tried to catch the butterfly with me, but neither of us could do it. Then Matt walks over and the butterfly lands right on his hand! A really cute, little girl also joined in and the butterfly flew off of Matt and landed on her head. I'm so happy that I captured it all with my camera!

This next set is also so great- I'm not sure if the monkeys we saw inspired Matt, but minutes later he was swinging like crazy from these big vines we found. Chinese tourists saw the whole thing and joined in, but they didn't climb as high as Matt. Everyone was laughing.

After 5 hours of hiking, butterfly chasing and vine swinging we were pretty exhausted. Apparently so was my camera, because it died at the end of the day. Unfortunately, I don't have any more pictures, but the remainder of the trip was spent underwater anyways. Matt and I are now both certified in open-water scuba diving, and I have a hunch we will both be getting our adventure-dive certificates as well. It was a pretty amazing experience, wrapped up with two
lazy days on the beach :)