Temple Fatigue: Is YOUR Family at Risk?

Angkor Wat
Siem Reap, Cambodia

Top warning signs that you and/or your loved ones have attempted to visit too many temples:

1.  You're too exhausted to have even petty disputes with each other.

2.  You find yourself drinking the water on purpose to fall ill and stay in the hotel room.

3.  You begin taking photos of other comically attired tourists instead of ancient battle carvings

4.  You're too numb to snap another perfect collage of orange robed monks amidst eroding stone walls

    


Good thing this guy didn't
catch me taking his photo!

 

I have an entire series of this

character - instant classic!



There were a number of strange outfit choices around the temples considering the high temps and humid air.  I'm sure we looked strange as well.

Seriously, if you actually wanted to learn something, you wouldn't be reading this blog.



Kidding aside, the temples of Angkor are awesome (and old).  It does appear that the entire town has been developed to support tourists trampling all over these ancient sites, with little being done to actually preserve or prevent further destruction.

 

No ropes, no "do not touch" signs, and more often than not you find that you're using an old MFA-worthy statue to climb through a temple doorway along with the busload of zip-away-pants-tourists in front of you.

In Cambodia, however, poverty is everywhere and it becomes hard to see all the children begging you to buy trinkets and postcards and water.  We hope that our extra dollars help as tourism seems welcome.

Food was surprisingly excellent at a very good price.  Influenced by the French with plenty of Khmer at the core.



Temple fatigue victim #336,787,995