5/30 3:43 PM IT (Indochine Time) – Sunday

“Sitting at the bar in Cambodia, Siem Reap – at the Heritage Suite Hotel. I desperately need to write down my adventures since leaving Singapore! My brother & I have had a wonderful adventure exploring the temples of Angkor Wat.

Ta Prohm has been my favorite… there is such a peaceful quality to the whole place. I was thinking I would make a real connection with some part of the temple complex [as I have literally been drawn to this place my entire life] and Ta Prohm was definitely it. It’s literally located in the middle of the jungle. Vegetation has overrun the temple. It’s exactly what I thought all of the temples would be here. The temples have been taken over by two major trees… the ceiba pentandra – a silk cotton tree & a ficus gibbosa – a strangler fig. The strangler figs are huge and give the whole area a very surreal feel to the place. But I still go back to it, it has a very peaceful, tranquil vibe to it. Incredibly inviting! I really felt at home there. I would have liked to stay there all afternoon, listening to the birds call, the trees blowing in the slight wind, in the distance, Cambodian music… as I said, very tranquil. It took my breath away…”

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