"You have chosen.... wisely"-- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The next day we got up at the ass crack of dawn for day number 3 in a row to haul it way out to Koh Ker... where we were the only tourists. Now Koh Ker is about 3-4 hours from where we were, so we were really in the middle of no where.













Before I really get into this adventure, let me give you some background. Koh Ker was once a capital city, and then the Khmer Rouge used it as a strong hold. The whole area was at one point a mine field. Now it is slowly but surely being cleared. Below are some pictures of the deminers, a cleared mine sign, and some land mine markers.



We began at Prasat 5....






Prasat Kamou (Black Temple)...



Random Temples....



Sacred Well...



Prasat Thom....



Funny story here... the shot right before this one i had to be at the top of this mud pile... and when i turned to walk down I slid in classic robin fashion slamming my camera on the wall... so i was like, "rocky, smile to make sure my camera still works"... luckily it did...


City of Lingas...

Another unknown Temple...

Jungle Temple/Siva Temple...

And yet other jungle temples...

The Elephant Temple...

And then the best was saved for last... no, literally... not that i was saving these pictures, but that this was the last place on our big adventure... and it was the most incredible... Its called Beng Mealea. Back in the day Beng Mealea served as the model for all other temples... it was built on a smaller scale and not particularly fancy or made of permanent material b/c it was just a large scale model... this means when it fell apart, it fell apart something awesome... but i'm babbling... picture time... Oh yeah, there was a terrential down poor right before hand... and during... making all that much better...

I climbed up those rocks there to get up top...

This was supposed to be showing me still climbing up rocs, steps and the roof... but somehow it came out creepy.

Thats another view of how i got up... (Yes there was a guide leading us)

And then we went down this way... and into this long dark tunnel... which was terrifying... please not the reflection at the end... its a big thing of water that we all stepped in. On the other side we had to climb down and the guide would be like "step here" "step there" "ah don't step there"....