Sunrise at Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap. Picture: Angela Saurine
OUR elephant stoops his head to accept a pineapple being offered by a lady with one leg and two missing teeth.
The woman – no doubt a land mine victim - looks up at us and grins, stroking the animal’s wrinkly trunk with affection.
Appetite temporarily satisfied, we continue on the path around the Bayon temple, bouncing from side to side as we go.
Open-mouthed children step out of a car and stare up at us, macaque monkeys scurry along the grass beside us and countless tourists stop to take our photo.
We pass a marquee where a film crew is hard at work and tuk-tuk drivers standing in a circle playing hacky sack as they wait for customers to finish their sightseeing.
We nearly run over one man standing on the road gazing at the Khmer temple in awe.
“Beep! Beep!” I call out to warn him.
He turns around in surprise at the size of the animal coming towards him and jumps out of the way quickly. Read the full article at the Herald Sun.
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