Expedition to Prasat Preah Vihear

15 and 16 May were national holidays in Cambodia, giving a 4 day weekend, so 9 VSO volunteers and I hired a minibus with driver and set out on an expedition to Prasat Preah Vihear, an Angkorian hilltop temple resort on the Thai border. The rainy season has just started and the roads were quite tricky in places, but they would be impassable later in the year. We rode on the back of a pick-up for the near-vertical stretch up the mountain. Our visit to the temple complex was well worth the difficult journey. We also managed a side trip to a further important temple site, Koh Ker, on our return home. There are a lot of old temples scattered throughout Cambodia, many of which were ravaged in recent years by the Khmer Rouge.