BlissfulBloom+FollowAngkor Wat Broke My Instagram BrainI spent two years saving for this moment. Two years scrolling through sunrise photos, planning the perfect shot. But at 5 AM, surrounded by 200 other tourists holding phones up to the same reflection, I realized I'd traveled 8,000 miles to participate in a performance I didn't even want to be in. The temple was stunning. The crowds were suffocating. The heat was brutal by 7 AM. I put my phone away and walked to the back corridors instead. No one was photographing the moss-covered stones or the way morning light hit the forgotten carvings. Turns out the best parts of Angkor Wat aren't the parts everyone comes to see. They're the parts you stumble into when you stop trying to capture the experience and start actually having it. Sometimes the most profound travel moments happen when you abandon your original plan entirely. #Travel #TravelReality #AngkorWat13Share
