Light up
4 am. Probably sometimes in July. We lost track of the days. Months. We were in Siem Reap, Cambodia. After spending two months travelling South East Asia, we wound up here at 4am waking up to see the sunrise at Angkor Wat. It was the thing to do. Being tourists, backpackers, staying at hostels called Funky Monkey and evading bed bugs the best we could. There wasn't much sleep the night before. There can't be at a hostel called Funky Monkey where the roof top turned into a dance club after the sun went down. Not to mention, we were sleeping in a 16 person, dorm styled hostel room. Nothing could ruin my day. But the incessant snoring from the fellow drunk European man sleeping beneath was trying to. I shook his bunk bed passive aggressively to wake him up. Something I'd probably never do now, but I sure did have the guts then. The morning came quickly. We had the sweetest driver and he drove 4 of us to Angkor Wat the day before and promised an early morning p...