Popular Post ednaz Posted December 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 23, 2021 Be open to sudden ideas for New Years. Sometimes you stumble into a life experience. My family was vacationing in Cambodia during the holidays of 1999, and when we checked into our hotel in Siem Riep, saw a poster in the lobby for a New Year's Eve party at the hotel that would end at 1am, followed by a wakeup call at 430am and a walk through one of the larger temple ruins areas, with each person having their own lantern. The party was amazing, great food and a surprisingly good cover band, with thousands of candle driven hot air balloons released at midnight. But the temple walk... they had little lamps along the path (with a suggestion to stay inside the lamps because the snakes would stay outside the lit area). An hour and a half of walking through ruins in the dark, with several Cambodian folk groups scattered through the area completely out of sight providing background music. Those carvings take on a totally different feel by lamplight with fading intoxication from the party. Walk ended up in a huge temple courtyard with the most elaborate high end breakfast we've ever had in our lives...blini and caviar anyone?... followed by watching the sun rise over the temples (with champagne), an hour performance by the local folk dance group (just back from a world tour) and a guided walk back led by three archaeologists who'd been working on restoring the temples since Pol Pot was deposed. (The event raised money for their restoration work. They said they raised three years worth of funds that evening.) All this instead of our plan to have a nice dinner and go to bed early on New Year's Eve. Our son was 7 at the time and still whispers when he talks about it. So maybe poke around for something other than the iPhone video experience... who knows? The Computer Audiophile and fas42 1 1 Link to comment
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