Monday, April 2, 2007







Being a Hindu temple originally it comes with a very complicated religious system behind it. For better or worse, we had a very knowledgeable guide with us. He went through every detail of every carving at a very rapid clip in a clearly memorized speech, but was really thrown off if you asked a question which caused him to deviate from the prepared remarks. I think we were the first group to ask him questions since his prepared speech delivered in a monotone ran to about twenty hours, which is probably enough for most tourists. He loosened up some at dinner, although where we really threw him was when Reza tried to explain that Somchai and I were gay. He never believed it since he kept saying gays had to be wearing dresses, so I don't know what he's making of Siam Reap's gay bar now.

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