00:00This is just such a magical place.
00:05This is what it's for. Look at this backdrop.
00:54A nomad is not a vacation. It's freedom, but it's also discipline.
00:58It's an exchange of security for enhanced experiences.
01:02It's a way of life.
01:50All right, it's about 5AM here in Sam Reap
01:55And we are about to head off to Anchor Watt, which is something we've been really excited about for, well,
02:02since we got here, actually.
02:03It's probably the main reason most people come to Sam Reap.
02:08There is thousands and thousands and thousands of years of history here in Anchor Watt, which I'll get into along
02:17the way.
02:17But we've got to leave because Anchor Watt opens at 5.
02:22The sunrise is around 6, 6.30.
02:24It's about a 20-minute drive by car, so probably a bit longer for us.
02:29And we want to try and beat the crowds a little bit.
02:31We've already bought our tickets, but I've heard the crowds can get pretty crazy.
02:36So we're going to jump in and tuk-tuk and go.
03:13Let's start with this.
03:17Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
03:19C'est à te sonner
03:23C'est à te sonner
03:25Oh, oh, oh, oh
03:51All right, we made it, the drive out here is pretty cool actually, very easy
03:56It is 5.30ish, the moon's still up
04:04Lila's up
04:07Barely
04:08We were told all this stuff about like needing to bring your passport and stuff for the tickets
04:14Because they're really strict, they weren't strict at all, they just looked at our tickets that we bought online
04:18Scanned them and let us straight in
04:20But we don't really know where we're going
04:22Just kind of following the crowd, which there is already a lot of people
04:26Okay, in case you've never heard of Angkor Wat
04:28It is the largest religious temple or religious monument in the world
04:36It covers more area than the Vatican
04:40There's just some incredible facts about it
04:43But I've actually been interested in it for a couple of years
04:47I've been really getting into like ancient architecture
04:52Like the pyramids, Angkor Wat, the Mayan temples
04:58And everything about it is just kind of impossible, honestly
05:04Everything aligns with the sun
05:06There's a moat that goes around Angkor Wat, which you'll see here
05:11Which is like eight kilometres long
05:14And this was supposedly built by hand nearly a thousand years ago
05:21It just seems impossible
05:23And the carving of everything
05:27Like apparently it took 30 years to build
05:30The entire complex is perfectly aligned with the sun
05:34So during the spring equinox, the sun rises directly over the central tower
05:39Something that like even modern architects these days wouldn't be able to pull off
05:45Which is what's so insane about it
05:46It was originally a Hindu temple
05:50But since was converted into a Buddhist temple
05:55I guess because Cambodia is a Buddhist country now
05:58Even just little things that you might not think about
06:00Like so let's say this was built a thousand years ago
06:03Which I have my doubts and so do a lot of other people
06:08Look at these pavers here
06:12Look at the size of them
06:24Each one of these pavers probably weighs, I don't know, a ton each or something
06:30Look how the sun rises right over the entrance
06:32It's so beautiful
06:34Look at all the people
06:41I really didn't think that many people would get up this early for this
06:46But yeah, it's very busy
06:50I was actually wondering why it opened so early
06:53And why everybody decides to come so early
06:56But it makes perfect sense now
06:57Because it's all, this is what it's for
07:00Look at this backdrop
07:01Yeah
07:28Look at this
07:49Holy shit.
08:01Holy shit.
08:33Okay, everyone else has veered or just gone straight.
08:37We're veering to the left here to see if we can beat the crowds.
08:42I cannot believe how many people are here.
08:44It's crazy.
08:45Thousands, right?
08:46Thousands of people.
08:48I was like, ah.
08:50Every other time we go to a tourist place, it doesn't get busy maybe till about like
08:55eight or nine or something like that.
08:57There's not as many people dedicated to getting up first thing in the morning.
09:02Do you reckon we just go straight up here?
09:04Yeah.
09:04There's nobody here.
09:06Cool.
09:06Wow.
09:07Wow.
09:07This is incredible.
09:19You can still see the moon up there?
09:21A little sliver of it.
09:22It's a new moon.
09:23It's a new moon.
09:33Wow.
09:40Look at all the details.
09:41lines, and carved into the walls.
09:51Wow.
09:53That would've taken so much work to do every little thing.
10:15Let's go.
10:33Let's go.
11:09I mean, this place just never ends.
11:12Wow, look at this.
11:12Let's go.
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16:00all right we're pretty much done with anchor watts about 7am been here for about an hour an hour and
16:06half we're gonna drive the tuk-tuk to bayon temple which is about a 10 to 15 minute drive and
16:11then
16:11we're going to go to this iconic tree bayon taprom is that what it's called taprom this iconic tree
16:19named taprom so we recommend if you're going to come to anchor watt hiring a tuk-tuk for the day
16:25like you could hire your own driver to drive you around i don't think you need a tour guide honestly
16:30but you can do that if you want it's probably like i think it's like 12 dollars for a tour
16:35guide
16:35we had a lot of people offering but we like to do things at our own pace so a couple
16:40of other things
16:40there's like sculptures and drawings of animals that they just shouldn't have known existed a
16:48thousand years ago like a stegosaurus like how did they know that that existed a thousand years ago
16:54before archaeology discovered that sort of stuff and they've actually done like lidar scans recently
17:00flying over the top of it using satellites i don't know how they do it i'm gonna sound like a
17:05dummy here
17:06but um they do believe now that anchor watt was actually built on top of an entirely different
17:17structure bigger larger city and it could date back thousands and thousands and thousands of years
17:24also some of the chambers in anchor watt um produce like a very unique sound frequency
17:32and they believe that it could have been built as an energy source through sound and vibration which
17:39i know sounds crazy but i've heard this said about the great pyramids as well
17:44so
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24:20famous tree that sort of has weaved itself into the stone and the building
24:28there's the beautiful faces again in this temple taprom temple it's called
24:39you're going the right way you think
24:59we can hear this like magical music off in the distance
25:05wonder where it's coming from wow it's so peaceful through here there's not many other tourists
25:10here yet and all you can hear is like monkeys and insects and birds we're like deep in the
25:18jungle right now we're just coming up to the temple here oh it's so pretty this looks like
25:24something out of like indiana jones yeah isn't there a tomb right at temple here oh that's right
25:31yeah they filmed a movie here didn't they hey didn't they film the movie here yeah
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