After returning back to Saigon we had planned to take a 16 hour bus ride from Saigon to Siam Reap where the Angkor Kingdom was situated. The bus ride was for most parts quite comfortable with a beautiful amount of scenery to keep us amused. I thought of downloading a group of eBooks so i could read along the way, but we both spent the majority of time looking out the window at the passing country side. there was a definite difference in the look of the houses i noticed as soon as we passed into Cambodia. The houses seemed to be raised of the ground, with the general living area down stairs. we followed the Mighty Mekong for a large proportion of the time. the first place we arrived at was the capital phenom pen. A bustling metropolis of shops and people, we transferred buses and continued on further, the tour guide for this leg of the trip was a nice and helpful man, there was one point where we had stopped for some food and some Russian tourists offered us and the tour guide some scotch and we happily accepted, so did the tour guide. this added a comical element watching him try and do his speech on his microphone after these drinks. We  arrived at  Seim Reip at around 11pm and had to go find a hotel room. the first day was just getting used to the city area. The second day we decided to get met early by a took took driver to be taken to Angkor Wat. I fell quite sick at this stage and had to be taken back to the hotel room. We bought a 3 day pass to the kingdom thinking this would be enough time to get around it. we had been told that if you go to Angkor Wat at around 5:30 pm then you did not have to use one of your pass times so we decided to go there in the afternoon of the first day…Nothing cold prepare me for how much i was blown away by this amazing structure. We had been traveling around Vietnam for over 5 weeks and seen nothing of ancient civilizations and we had finally arrived at one. The monstrosity of the complex, the intricate carvings, the beautiful surroundings it just took me away. the amount of tourists there just didn’t seem to worry me at all, at a certain point i even forgot that they were there. we watched the sunset from the highest peak of the furthest towers that we payed a security guard to go and see and it was well worth it. the next day we decided to hire mountain bikes to ride around this monstrous complex and that is exactly what it is a huge complex of temples and ruins. we underestimated how far it was and soon realised that we had rode all day and still only seen the most smallest amount. overall Angkor Kingdom has been one of the best highlights as i have always been interested in archeology and this was my first taste of seeing it up close. the kingdom housed around a million people in its hay day and you really had the feeling that people had walked these corridors hundreds of years ago. A well worthy place to visit.