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Another 05.00h wake up. Shower, check out. Received box breakfasts from hotel. Long drive (20 km) to river. Drove past many villages along dirt road, which was in very bad shape because of frequent flooding during the rainy season. Most of the homes used kerosene lanterns for light ... but had TV antennae on their roofs. Always amazing, this …
Learned a lot today...
... i was ill but that i wasn't happy with the placement and told them about my issues and the boy swearing! didn't hear anything back! said i would like to work at a secondary school or university with Older students/people (clearly little kids don't do it for me) but yeah didn't hear back. Ended up going back to Lucky's but just for water and fruit juice this time!!! And sat doing work again like I said but power cuts are the bane of my life!!!! ...
The hotel room doesn't look like the website...
So now I find out how this other bus service operates, as I board it at 6.30 am, destination Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia. When we check into the bus, they do a luggage control check-in that I find rather impressive. (I've seen this done on previous trips, so I am hoping it is a reflection of my ride this morning.) The tag your luggage, as if at the airport, note it ...
The red mist clears
... and dingy pet shops - not nice. We should have got a tuk tuk, but finally ended up back near the Royal Palace. We decided not to see the Palace and it's associated glories, partly because of the price, partly because we couldn't find the bloody entrance, and partly because after the walk the view from the bar over the river seemed far more appealing - particularly as we've seen enough temples and palaces already! I'm sure it would have been a sight though. Instead, we planned ...
Hard Rain
... I could plug one in to save us!
Finally the storm abated, I thanked my Khmer host and he smiled and waved me on my way. The map conveniently had a supermarket marked on it and I desperately needed some high factor sun cream as mine was nearly gone. After this I returned to see how Dan was doing. He was lay on his bed just lapping up the cool air coming out of the air-con unit. “How are you doing mate?” “I have no idea what’s wrong ...
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