Cambodia - Day 4 AM

There are only 3 terminals at the lobby... on my left, the little one is playing games from www.thomasandfriends.com. On my right, the big one is reading news from CNBC, an article with the headline "China suspends military exchange with US". The little one has a glass of milk sitting on the computer top... the big one has a cup of coffee sitting on the computer top. Both has somewhat the same expression of concentration.

And so this is Cambodia - Day 4... we've just had the same good breakfast - the little one ate his croissant, stuffed with mangoes, ham, noodles, egg and butter while the big one has some of everything off the buffet table and fried yellow noodles with pork - and we don't have anything to do until noon.

Day 1: Landed around 10am. Checked in, walked to the old market area for lunch and walked back. It was really hot and we all got sunburned. Took a nap, swam and went out again to the old market area for dinner, visited the Angkor night market - all selling silk scarves, trinkets, bed/table runners, US$2 T-shirts and Dr.Fish massages - and arrived home in a tuk-tuk.

Day 2: Left the hotel at 5am to catch sunrise over Angkor Wat. Moving in the dark, I nearly fell off one of the terraces. Thank goodness I didn't else I would have broken some bones for sure from that height.  The rest of the day, we moved through Angkor Thom - the capital city of the Khmer empire, visiting temples such as the Bayon, Baphuon and Phimenanakas (we gave up climbing this one because the little one was melting with exhaustion by then). Somehow, we made it through the Terrace of the Elephants with the boy still using his own two little legs. But the boy soon had a meltdown and refused to walk any further. Our tuk-tuk came to the rescue. Lunch at a touristy place... the boy slept for almost 2 hours and then we went on to Ta Phrom, followed by an elephant ride up Phnom Bakheng to watch sunset over Siem Reap. Dinner at the hotel.

Day 3: Breakfast followed by a tuk-tuk ride to Chong Khnease, where we got, for US$40, a boat to take us out to see the floating village along the edge of the Tonle Sap Lake. This lake is the largest freshwater lake in Asia. It's so expansive it looks like an ocean. The guide tells us it will take 5hr by speedboat to get to the other side of the lake. Stopped by the Old Market to buy pack some lunch. Rest of the day spent nuah in the hotel, sleeping and swimming. Had a buffet dinner + cultural dance show at Angkor Mondial restaurant. Boy fell asleep watching the Apsara dance and we lugged him back on a tuk-tuk.