What? What time is it? What is that horrid noise? Is that an alarm? GAAAH…why??? Its still kinda dark outside. Ugh. Ok ok, fine, I'll get up. Soo early…jeez. ;)
So yea, once again, we were up early. I showered and turned the water on cold at the end to 
wake myself up. You know ur tired when u take a cold shower, hop out, and fall asleep standing up. Anyways, I got ready, packed everything, and we went to eat breakfast. They had a really delicious breakfast buffet and I ate a LOT. We checked out afterwards, and headed down to the bus. Our first stop of the day was a floating village. It sounded cool, no doubt, but what the heck is a floating village? In my head, I pictured a bunch of huge houses that were somehow staying afloat, but I really didn't know what to expect. Who would be living there? We would have to wait and see. It took about an hour to get to the boats. We stopped in a small village built right next to a river, and there were tons of tourists climbing into long boats. We climbed into one too and we were off up the river…or down the river…I dunno ;)
After about 20 minutes, we came across a lake, and in the distance
I saw tons and tons of boats, and… they were not moving. Ohhh…a FLOATING village! :) We came closer, and saw before us a VAST village, that was floating! People lived in small house boats, and small children waved at our boat as we floated by. It was unlike anything I have ever seen. We eventually docked at a small shop, and walked around. Achal and I climbed up to the top, and got a great view over the whole village. Right outside the floating shop, there was a small area with some 
crocodiles and a pool filled with crazy fish, so we checked that out. Not before long, it was time to go. We got back on the boat, and returned to the bus. We left for our last stop in Cambodia, the Ta Prohm temple. On the way back, we saw huge, beautiful fields of lotus flowers on one side of the bus, and we asked the driver to stop for a sec so we could snap some pics. I ran down and took some pictures of the gorgeous lotus flowers. And we continued to Ta Prohm.
We arrived in about an hour at the Ta Prohm Temple, or as it was commonly called, the "jungle temple." If any of you have seen the movie Tomb Raider, it was filmed at Ta Prohm. Our guide told us he had met Angelina Jolie when they were filming…lol. Anyways, we entered the temple, and it was just awesome from the start. There was a long, wooden bridge we had to cross to get inside. We had about an hour inside, so we started wandering around. The temple was eery and there were lots of ruins. Most of it had not been restored (they were in the process of restoring many parts), so it was really cool in its original form. We walked into some narrow corridors, and some dark rooms, climbed some of 
the rocks, and even "accidentally" wandered off the path into a restricted zone…oops. There were trees EVERYWHERE growing off the rocks. It was almost like the forest was taking over and 
destroying the temple, slowly but steadily. It was really really cool. Our time was over quickly, and we took as many pictures as we could on our way out. We ran back to the bus cuz we were late. We had been told to meet at the temple gate, but as we exited the temple we realized the gate was a mile away! So, we ran the last mile, and were a few minutes late to the bus. But, there was still one person missing. Mimi was nowhere to be seen, and we waited for her…and waited…and waited. Scary thoughts started running through our minds…maybe she had gotten lost…or GASP! Maybe she had been taken by the evil spirits that guard the Ta Prohm 
temple…ok, I'm kidding. She came back soon…she had taken a wrong turn and gotten lost.
We looked back at our last temple and waved goodbye as we drove off toward the airport. Soon thereafter, we were checked in and on our flight home…er, rather back to Vietnam. It had been a wonderful, amazing trip and I am SO glad I got to visit Cambodia.
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