Mission Very Possible

Your mission if you choose to accept it is to find THE TREE and take some most excellent photographs of it...this message will not self destruct in five seconds or indeed any amount of seconds because it is a blog.

Siem Reap is mostly known for Angkor Wat which we spent three days looking around. These are temples which were uncovered by the french after they were left to the mercy of the jungle. According to people who like to talk...the Cambodians knew it was there the whole time but never did anything about it. This is speculation of course.

So the first two days we went by tuk tuk to the temples and on the third day for a change of pace we went on the motorbikes. The tree story - for those of you that I haven't bored with it (sorry Ayms!) is that I found an excellent photo on the internet of a cool looking tree and decided that I needed to take this particular photo for myself. I then explained to Amy that we would need to go in search of this tree when we reached Angkor Wat and we wouldn't stop till we found it. The truth of the matter is that it's a fairly famous tree...apparently I'm not alone in my adoration (for want of a better word, suggestions on a postcard please) and it is the subject of many photos, postcards and drawings all around the country, so it wasn't too hard to find at all. Although there was one hairy moment when we found a similar looking tree and debated it's authenticity as 'THE TREE'. We got the photos and I went home happy that day.

We also visited the butterfly garden in Siem Reap also known as the butterfly cemetary since there are as many dead ones as live ones. Apparently butterflies are quite stupid creatures and think it smart to rest on the path when people are walking on it?!

To the Scottish fans of the website...we met a woman who runs a bar in the town (with very good food) who's brother lives in Hoik (Gem's spelling) AKA Hawick (Amy's CORRECT spelling!) Stories were exchanged, giggles were had, everyone left smiling.

Siem Reap is also the birthplace of Justin Timberlake (JT)...one of the dudes that was working in our hostel who was particularly funny and took somewhat of a liking to our Amybelle :) She didn't really reciprocate his feelings - this could have been because of the long-distance issue or maybe that he was a whole foot shorter ;) Even after a rendition of How Do I Live Without You? Amy couldn't be persuaded. Other characters from the hostel worth mentioning are Superman, this guy was a fan of taking his shirt off and posing for no particular reason, and another dude who talked a lot about his girlfriend from Japan - sounded like a really serious relationship that was about to go wrong since she'd stopped returning his phone calls but in real life she had just been a guest at the hostel for a few weeks?!?