The flights over were quite uneventful and I have to admit that even riding baggage class was not as bad as I was prepared for it to be.  I have to give Mrs Columbus full credit for managing to find what I think was almost the perfect routing.  Our flight left Seattle at 2am so I was able to get right to sleep and with a short layover in Taipei, Taiwan we landed in Bangkok at about 10 in the morning.  We then had about another 90 minute layover in Bangkok and then flew straight to Cambodia.  Given the way that the flight times and layovers worked out we got to Cambodia just after lunch and for me anyway the time seems to have shifted OK and we just carried on like it was a normal day.

We had arranged a guide / driver for our temple explorations before we left and he picked us up at the airport and we went over the agenda for the next few days.  We will be starting at 8am the next day and he left us to explore the town of Siem Reap a bit on our own so that we could unwind a bit from our flights.

We wandered down by the river that runs through the town and got a good a good glimpse of a local man I think trying to catch Mrs. Columbus’ dinner for this evening….  I have to say that even for me the sight of the river would make me think twice about ordering the fish for dinner.

I did manage to top the evening off with a nice 1 hour foot massage 🙂 After all that schlepping around airports it was very relaxing and I am now looking forward to my next bit of research on the quality of the Cambodian massage!

We are off to the temples tomorrow and I am really looking forward to this, I expect it to be a very awe inspiring couple of days.