Sunday, April 1, 2007

59. Siam Reap, Cambodia Feb '01


My friend Reza was touring around Asia to celebrate being one of the last people to profit from the last days of the internet boom. We spent a couple of days in Bangkok and then took the one hour Bangkok Airways flight to Siam Reap, where we met his friend from business school. The four of us spent three days in the town exploring the world famous temple ruins. Well, actually Somchai and I did most of the exploring, while Reza and friend petered out relatively quickly. The temples are ridiculously atmospheric, but there are over seventy of them, spread over many miles and situated in the hottest place on earth, so at some point the marginal utility of each new temple diminishes rapidly.

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