Day 3: photography course Angkor wat

Another 4 am start today as if pre booked a photography course around the Angkor wat temples. What better place to learn how to properly use my camera and get some epic pictures of the beautiful temples. 

I was picked up by the British photography instructed with just one other person on the course. Arriving at the temples before sunrise, with a quick as easy demonstration of how to maximise the features on the camera and why and how to use a tripod. 

despite a significant lack of sun again, I got some great shots of the main temple, Angkor Wat itself.

We continued on to Angkor Thom, the temple features in tomb raider. Arriving before all the other tourists we had the place to ourself and got some fantastic pics despite the monsoon rain.

We saw another two temples pre lunch, a little more of the beaten path, learning how to have an image focused in the forefront with a blurry background.

After popping back into town for lunch and a much needed power nap, we headed back out into the rain, to the temple of faces (my favourite).

Then we were off to another temple deep in the jungle, with hardly had any other visitors. It was so beautiful, but again was another temple being consumed by the jungle.

We headed up a massive hill around 6:30 hoping for a lovely sunset but alas still too cloudy, so dragged ourselves back to town, exhausted but super happy with the pictures id taken that day. And the 17.5 km We'd walked.

Supper tonight was with some other people from the hostel. We went to a great little Mexican place called viva. I've been trying to just be veggie whilst I'm

Here and this place had a ton of options. 

I crashed around 10pm ready for a proper nights sleep and a much needed lie in.