After many years of nearly always going to new places, we purposefully went back to somewhere we have been before. We went back to Angkor Wat a decade after our first visit. There were so many differences.

• We are much more seasoned travellers.
• We have much more experience with photography.
• We have much better cameras.
• We took a lot more time to research what we wanted to do.
• We spent more time.
• We hired a photographer as a tour guide.
• There were a lot more other tourists.
• My partner wasn’t ill.

I loved going back. It really is a truly unique place, and it was fun mentally going back 10 years to my younger self and seeing the same site. I will say, going over the Christmas / end of year holiday was probably not the best idea, given it seemed everyone else was also on holiday and touring. I was also nice the revisit our old photos and see some of the improvements to the site the restoration has accomplished.

This is one of my favourite photos that came out of our day at the site. I believe this is the southern entrance. We got a ride to the east entrance, and basically walked around the southern side, then went into the complex. We didn’t get up super early for sunrise or anything, had an early breakie and got there around 8:30 AM. We were done with this complex by midday, and took a short break in the middle of the day, to come back to the surrounding complexes closer to sun down.

Sony A7R II | FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM | 31 mm | f/3.5 | 1/500th | ISO250