Bye to Cambodia, back to Vietnam

Spent our last day in Cambodia eating really great local food and visiting the modern temples in Siem Reap city near our hotel.

First was Wat Bo, unfortunately the famous murals were undergoing preservation, but still many beautiful things to view, and was a clam quiet place to just sit in the shade and enjoy some respite in a busy city. more info here:

Wat Bo, a Siem Reap Pagoda

amazing architecture

the monks at this Wat care for many sweet doggos. ♥️

This huge bell must be loud when the monks swing the log to ring it!

Next was Wat Preah Prom Rath, which was very near the tourist central zone, and clearly made more in donations from the larger amount of tourist/foot traffic.
Unlike Wat Bo, this was very flashy like Las Vegas.

Fancy topiary and peacocks

Hana Hou!

Sitting Buddha in the main temple

Very large laying Buddha, hard to tell scale from this pic

O.G. “How to Train Your Dragon” 😂
If you haven’t seen the movie or its sequels, please check em out. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0892769/?ref_%3Dttls_li_tt

Love the floating flower displays at this Wat

I think this scene is depicting place where old people went to die, then get their guts picked out by some animals?

More cool displays, this Wat had interesting things to view around every corner

Headed back to the room to shower and go to the airport for our flight back to Vietnam. To help reduce pollution and its affects on the ancient structures, Siem Reap recently moved their airport from the edge of Angkor Park, to an hour outside of the city. What we didn’t realize was that this international airport is less than 3 months old! It was just opened on October 16, 2023. It’s very large, and was very empty, when we flew out, but kinda cool to enjoy a BRAD NEW airport. Creepy in a way, and felt like flying during the pandemic again almost.