Asia Hotel Phnom Penh

... random confrontations, unscheduled teacher meetings, an ever growing household, and now scorpions in my bedroom, it helps to know that I have a few planned moments of peace that are in my control. So far my daily routine starts with crawling out of my mosquito fort at around 5:30 am followed by a quick shower before my host mother brings me a kettle full of hot water for a bowl of oatmeal and aam-baal (crushed uncooked rice that looks like oatmeal, really ...

... somewhere around 20,000.Did the neighbors not see, did the children not here? Do these gay little girls realize they're swinging over the remains of some of their dead kinfolk? <br><br>As we rounded the corner of the "grave of women and children without heads" we came upon two very significant trees. The first was the most horrific of all: the Killing Tree, where it's said children and babies were massacred by hurling them ...

... face of the earth and left it to repair the damage we have already caused and let the other úncivilised' animals roam wild and free once more. These horrors were committed only 30 years ago in an age of worldwide media coverage yet nothing was done. Why?? I wonder if Cambodia had oil and mineral reserves would 1.7 million been allowed to have been killed before uncle sam marched in saved the day and took control of the countrys natural resources. Cambodia ...

This last week has been eventful:<br><br>- Blood tests at the tropical disease clinic revealled I have some little wiggly friends living in my guts! Got some drugs so they should be dealt with easily enough.<br><br>- Paper work all done on my registration with the Ministry of Labour. After deciding to stay in Phnom Penh and commit to working as a freelance designer through this guys company he arranged to make me legit - which involved me going ...

Travelled by mini bus to Phnom Penh on Friday - leaving at 6 and arriving 5 hours later, then came back on Sunday afternoon.<br>The capital city is very different to Siem Reap, with a more apparent gulf between rich and poor. There are lots of young men who appear to have lots of money (been told they were sons of Government employees or lesser Royals, but not confirmed) and yet walking between bars and restaurants you have to ...

... just pluck a couple legs (very twiglet like in nature) from the thing and consume them! Pyscologically biting down into the body was just too much for meto handle! It was crunchy and very BBQy in nature, not at all bad......just got stuck in my teeth, leaving me with this never ending bqq taste every time i ran my tongue over my teeth... annoying!<br>We then walked to the lakeside area, which is a fantastic series of little allies hiding ...

... is damn near 100 degrees everyday by 9am. It is so hot... we find that most of the days we walk to an attraction stopping at a A/Ced bookstore for 20 minutes, or an A/Ced cafe for a Iced coffee, or even an A/Ced shopping mall for an hour, just to get out of the heat for a bit. Kampot, the small town after Phnom Penh was wonderful, quiet, with nice and friendly locals, not to mention a few nice attractions in the area (without many ...