Spent two nights in Bangkok which was fun. Stayed near Khao San road, the backpacker touristy area, which was pretty fun/funny in and of itself. Quite the scene. Much cheaper than the other parts of Thailand I'd been in, which I liked. Other Bangkok highlights included taking the river taxi:

View from river taxi. Tug pulling barge train! And lotus forest floating down the river.

And coming across an elephant in the middle of the road. I fed him some sugarcane for a dollar. The owners were poking him with a spike though, and he would give a little squeak when they did which I didn't like.

I looked up and there was an elephant!! He was so cute and kept trying to grab things with his trunk

Bussed it from Bangkok to Siem Reap to check out the Angkor temples. Thailand-Cambodia border scene was CRAZY madness with "service fees" and all sorts of mayhem getting a taxi.

Angkor temples were very cool. All respects to Angkor Wat but I liked Ta Prohm the most. Much less restoration has been done there so it's still covered with vegetation looks really wild. I kept having images of the party the monkeys must have had before people started clearing it up again.

King of the Swingers

Angkor Wat in the early AM

Bayon

Bayon

Bayon

Ta Prohm

Would like to go back with my anthropology buff Mum!

Did not realize how poor Cambodia would be, and how far behind all the other Asian countries I've visited in terms of development. Went to a city called Battambang, supposedly Cambodia's biggest behind Phnom Penh, to get my Vietnam visa, and decided to buy my plane ticket to Vietnam while I was there, which took about three hours of running around between printing, making copies of passport etc and faxing as it seemed there weren't any shops that offered more than one of these services at once. Finally finished the process this morning. Whew!

Next stop Hanoi!!