Happy new year (MY year -year of the boar-). Well I am back from the most amazing holiday I have ever had, to say it went far and beyond my expectations is an understatement. I am still marvelling at the good fortune (in placement and timing and serendipitous plan changing) we were on the receiving end off. I can think of nothing that would have made the trip any better. However it is going to take sometime for me to put together a blog of the trip, I think I will have to do it in several instalments. I am also hindered by a respectably sized mountain of photographs, I and Kelly filled our memory cards about 5 times each so I have a small stack of cds with pics from the trip. Kelly estimates she took around 1000 pictures, goodness knows how many I took. So I shall start by posting some pictures of the sunrise at Angkor Wat. It was the most beautiful thing we saw on the trip and the 4.30am wake up and freezing tuktuk drive were well worth it (we were lucky to get a perfect spot right next to the reflecting pool). I filled a whole memory card just that day (of Angkor Wat and 4 other Wats we saw) but I will just post pics of the sunrise just now.

Here is the actual sunrise (using my sunglasses as a filter)



Here is one of Kelly's pics I really like.

And it was pretty before the sun came up as well! All blues and purples.



Here comes the sun (this time using Kelly's brown sunglasses as a filter).

I will return to inflict more of my holiday snaps upon the world; until then rest your retinas.