Golden Gate Hotel Phnom Penh

Yesterday we traveled from Siam Reap to Pnom phen- quite a travel and a few of us were quite ill- hangovers/ travel sickness and probably food poisoning as we went to this Cambodian bbq where you cook your food in the middle of the table!! I shared with a girl called Katryn (German) we had snake, crocodile, squid, chicken and beef! Crocodile was my fave- apparently quite a lot of ppl get ill off snake. We went out to a few bars afterward and got a tuk ...

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Hope you are all doing great and staying out of trouble wherever you are.

We aren't staying out of trouble........ We seem to attract the stuff..... From the moment we stepped of the bus from Siem Reap.... Noma bless her heart decided to have an argument with a taxi driver for trying to rip us off. He said it was an $8 ride to the area we wanted to go but it was really only about $2 and after being swamped by about a dozen tuk tuk ...

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We took a tuk tuk back to the Babsea office and then walked to get lunch really quick. A few blocks from the office is the Tuol Sleng museum, the old S-21 prison and I went to walk around the museum to try and understand. It was truly horrific and it makes you feel trapped just walking in some of the rooms. I think my mind played tricks with me too because I kept convincing myself that I smelled something weird or I saw blood on the floor. At the end you can ...

... are vendors who do a roaring trade on site with the young monks buying their food. This is not what I would have expected as monks are not supposed to handle money but what can you do when kids need to eat?

There are many stupas holding skulls and remains of past monks, especially as so many were killed in the 70s under Pol Pot.

... and 1 Swedish and they were all coming to visit him this summer so he was quite in trouble, poor guy!) while we watched Khmer Karaoke songs in the TV or cheesy love movies or an old chinese series starring a magic monkey and pig. Whenever we sat there and drank beer and had a glimpse of the tv the same was on happily followed by a horde of giggling girls working at the guesthouse. Next day the tuktuk drivers friend drove us to the temples (F*** bicycling) which was a much ...

... the Siem Reap airport I changed about US$200 in to Cambodian Riel. The wad of notes I was handed was amazing. When I later stuffed them all in to my wallet, there was no way I could close that sucker and put it in my pocket. I wonder if I changed too much? The cab ride from the Airport to the hotel was amazing. I thought the streets of KL were busy but at least there were some road rules.