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MOSQUITO UPDATE: I AM A LEPER!!! i end up taking the bus to phnom with the english couple from my hotel. the israeli's opt for another bus company so we arrange to meet at the bus station. i arrive in phnom and realize each bus company has its own bus "station"! and by station i mean, random street corner. after walking around and not finding th...
Day 87 - The bus from Nek Luong was a completely wrecked minibus with the back seat, on which three of us were sitting on, was completely unattached to the vehicle and rocked to and forth with each pothole - of which there were many! I though the roads in Laos were bad but these are not only mostly dirt, but a field of holes you have to see to b...
6 hour bus ride crossing the border by land... The experience wasn't bad at all. The border crossing was smooth althought we had to take our luggage from the bus to the border office and back to the bus. The toilets at the border office were decent. They then made a stop at a resto on the highway and Josie ate a mini baguette and cream cheese wh...
Fortunately I wake up today feeling considerable better than I did the day before. We leave our Hotel for Siem Reap airport. Our flight to Phnom Penh is at midday and should take us about one hour. All goes to plan and we are at our Hotel by late afternoon. No time is wasted and within 30 minutes of our arrival we are out on a Cyclo tour of the ...
Phnom Penh (Wednesday) Worked all morning getting ready for meeting this afternoon. Like in the classes yesterday there were two primary themes in the meeting: compassion for the poor and pride in themselves and their hospital. From some notes I took: "Very poor ... we cannot accept ... very, very sad. I want to help the person who is dying and ...
Does every one of you know of Phnom Penh? Personally I'd never heard of it, but then I didn't know where Cambodia was until I got here. It seems that the only thing that really brought Phnom Penh to wider international attention was the same thing that removed it from the international stage... the Khmer Rouge, the killing fields and S21. The ho...
As Cambodia emerges as a growing democratic nation, it is also troubled and haunted by it's horrific past. Today was a day to learn how evil can exist in todays world. The day's plan was to visit two national sites. the Killing Fields and S21 museum. Brief history so the Killing Fields and S21 make sense: Pre 1975 Cambodia had troubled relations...
Before we hopped our Bus to Phnom Penh, we went a land mine museum, where all the guides were victims of mines. That place was horrible. I guess Cambodia still has something like 4 Million mines laid and the havoc those things wreak are insane. Back to the Bus Ride. Originally, i had a private car lined up to drive us to phnom penh for $55. Well...
