The jungle surrounding Siam Reap was enough to keep us busy for days.
The silk cottonwood trees were as big as our Redwoods, with roots that grabbed hold of everything around them and got ready to take it down. They were huge, towering over everything else in the jungle and glimmering with a reddish/silver glare in overcast light. Some of them grew sideways, ready to fall over in a loud crash only the lucky will see and hear.
The ants were as big as our roaches. We saw several packs of them transporting worms or leaves across roads.
Bugs like our cicadas whined at a high pitches in the trees and when they wound down to start up another round, they sounded like a space-ship landing nearby.
Birds cackled in packs.
Monkeys laughed at sunrise.
Although the sun never blared, a heavy heat weighed on us the whole time we were in Cambodia. It was a humid, wet heat. We soaked scarves and handkerchiefs.
The jungle is an aggressive strong thing. We're glad we could ride bikes around in it with plenty of water and clean bathrooms.
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ants as big as cockroaches. the horror, the horror.
And delicious!
I didn't know what a silk cottonwood tree was like so I looked it up on Flickr. The roots look like they were poured out of the sky.
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