A Day of Temples 3 July Angkor Wat. Maverick scribed by Lucy

Squaaaark! It's me again, the amazing flying kakapo! or just Maverick. I am really getting sick of that screaming chicken,and the really weird part is that all the children back at my hometown in Glenorchy really want a chicken like it! They must not realise how annoying it is. Anyway, that isn't relevant, I'll tell you what happened today...

Today we woke up, had breakfast and went to some temples.

The end

Toni: "Maverick, stop being lazy and write in more detail."

Maverick: "squark, squar, skwaark!"

Toni: "Stop making excuses, you can't even have a tooth-ache."

Maverick: "Squaaaaark!"

Toni: " Or a feather-ache. That's it, enough excuses, if you don't cooperate I'll set the chicken on you."

Maverick: " Squark! " *sound of claws tapping the iPad screen

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Squaark! It's me, the apparently lazy, but actually amazing and in disgrace kakapo, Maverick.

Today we got up out of bed and headed to breakfast. For breakfast Lucy had toast and crossoints and some other stuff like that. Everyone else had American breakfast. (Bacon, eggs, toast, jam, butter and sausage.) After breakfast we got ready for a day of temple exploration. (Personally, this didn't sound like a great idea at the time) At about 9:30, our tour guide James came with a minivan. (Now there are two humans called James,) and took us to the first and the biggest temple, Angkor Wat.

Not so small James, Lucy and Toni didn't have hats so, donning their umbrellas we all paraded down the bridge. Did I mention that Angkor Wat is surrounded by a moat? I guess not. Anyway, while walking down the bridge, a monkey ran along the bridge as well. It was quite a small monkey, and I suspected that this was not the last monkey we would see today. After crossing the bridge, we came to the entrance of the temple.

We saw two pools on either side of the entrance in some grassy fields below, (the temple was higher that ground level.) also, there were some horses wearing a decorative halter and saddle. There were a sorry looking bunch, looking hungry and bored, Some people even paid to sit on their  backs while their photo was taken! In other words, those horses were just unfortunate.

 Anywho, at the entrance the bannisters were stone, like the rest of the temple, though when the bannisters ended A snake with seven heads rose up from the bannisters, James said that the bannisters were actually seven headed stone snakes. He explained that the seven heads each stood for one day of the week. Then we walked inside. It was amazing! The carvings were (almost) perfectly preserved and I think the temple was safe, I'm still alive, so I guess that's fine. Many of the carvings were about war or women. One of the most famous carvings is about two gods fighting over a giant snake with giant armies. That temple was huge! After leaving that temple we went to the second temple.

 Monkeys were everywhere! We were told not to go to close to them because the monkeys were unpredictable, meaning that sometimes if you tried to pet them, they would literally rip you to shreds. They were even more dangerous than a wild pig. Passing the monkeys, we came to the entrance to the Bayan Temple. To start off with, this temple was much, much smaller, and it didn't have a moat. James the tour guide said that this temple's roof was burned down in a war. So there wasn't a roof anymore. This temple also had snake bannisters. At some points there were face-towers things.

There were places you could stand and three of the face towers would line up. This temple was a Hindu temple where as the first temple was a Buda temple. This temple Was also in repairs, and many parts of the temple were crumbling. The carvings here represented healing, princes and getting ready for war. (Well, that's what it looked like to me.) Toni, John and Lucy looked around some more while Big James took James and Sam to the toilets. Then we hit the road again.

The last temple... Some people say that you save the best for last but I say that all of these temples were fabulous. The last temple was rather interesting I must say, in fact, if you have seen the movie 'Tomb Raider' it is the temple where they find the second part of the triangle of time. (Spoiler alert!) in other words, it was a cool temple where people were restoring places and giant trees were growing everywhere. In this temple there was a place where a tree was growing and in the roots there was a natural gap where in the rock behind, it looked like a women was peering out between the roots. After looking at the parts of the temple we could see and looking at the worlds biggest trees, we got in the minivan

and drove home.

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We swam and had dinner with a friend.

The end

Maverick: Squaaaar, Zzzzzz Squaaaar, Zzzzzz

Toni: "I warned you Maverick."

Chicken: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH ( watch video to actually hear chicken. )

Maverick: "Squaark! Really? I was just having a nap!"

Toni: "Maverick I warned you, so write the rest of the blog!"

Maverick: " Ok, Ok, keep your feathers on, I'll keep writing it."

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When we arrived at the hotel, we had time for a quite swim before meeting a friend at dinner. (Of course I didn't swim, chlorine is so bad for my feathers. ) When the kids had finished swimming we all got dressed for the occasion, (even me)

Toni bought some kakapo pins in her bag, and we were ready to go. Sorry, I should explain the kakapo pins. Toni bought about fifty mini kakapo pins with her when we started the trip and has been giving them to people who we meet. So anyway, we got a tuk-tuk and went to where we were meeting our friend, who, by the way, was called Scott and yes, he was from Scotland. When we got to the place we planned to have dinner... Disaster struck! The place we were going to have dinner was closed! Luckily, we managed to get hold of Scott and organise to have dinner down the road.

We had dinner at a place called Palm Leaf or something like that. The dinner was pretty good and we enjoyed seeing Scott. We had ice cream for dessert, and then just talked, and talked, and talked. Then we took a tuk-tuk home and went to sleep.

I guess that that is all I will write for now and *yawn I'm really tired I guess I'll just lie dow... Squaaaar, Zzzzzz

Squaaaar Zzzzzz