Amazing Angkor!!

Pics from my first trip to Angkor and the end of January 2009 :-

















































Words and pics simply cannot do justice to the monumentally awe-inspiring grandeur of Angkor which has to be experienced in person to be fully appreciated.
The sheer multitude and immense magnitude of the sites which were far more than i ever imagined really bowled me over!
Angkor should be a pilgrimage everyone in South East Asia must make!!

City of Angels

Pics taken during my first ever trip to Bangkok just before christmas last month :-

The Grand palace and Wat Phra Kaew:-





Wat Pho:-




Wat Arun :-





Ayuthayya:-





Wat Ratchanatdaram:-






Wat Suthat:-






Golden Mount & Wat Sraket:-





Democracy monument:-


Phrasumen fort:-


Chao Praya with long tail boat and phr pinkalo bridge:-


Bagkok was in a word : "OVERWHELMING!", there's just so much to see and do there that despite spending 5 nights in the city i was left wanting MORE... MUCH MORE!!!!
It's also a city of contrasts not only materially with gleaming luxuries against a backdrop of slums but spiritually as well where you can ascend to the sublimest heavens in its Wats and descend to the sleaziests of hells in its "bars".
In short Bangkok makes you feel alive in ways you may have never thought possible and after my much delayed first trip there, I very much look forward to returning!