Lyon d'Or Phnom Penh

We had a 6 hour bus ride today - 3 hours to the Vietnam border ... get off the bus and go through customs - and get back on the bus ...
Go another 200 meters then get off the bus and go through Cambodian customs (including Quarantine where men with white masks checked your temperature through your ear (they did wipe the thermometer between people ... but GROSS!) ... then back on the bus and continue our journey.
We arrived in Phnon Penh pretty tired and stickey so didn't have a huge ...

... taxi was bringing us to a popular place where people go out for dinner and drinks but ended up back near our guesthouse.

Apparently it's quite common for motor drivers as well as other forms of taxi drivers to nod enthusiastically as if they understand where you want to go but end up taking you to a different spot. It's such a stark contrast from Siem Reap where everyone's English is so great and seems so weird that the taxi drivers in the capital have such a ...

... have far to travel and had our ticket and were in the grounds by 9. Some of the temples were interesting enough but we were glad we opted for 1 day, although if we’d paid for a 3 day ticket I would’ve spent the whole time feeding the elephants. I don’t think I could ever get tired of them, they’re just so funny. After feeding them all twice we’d seen and done everything we wanted and were on our way back by 4 o ...

... tradition of visiting doctors whilst on holiday, and we spent a morning at the International SOS clinic checking out an injury from our mammoth cycle ride in Siem Reap. He was given some anti-inflammatory drugs and we decided to rest up - He's 100% recovered now and we are very relieved after a few days of considering cutting our hols very short to fly home to the NHS.

We worked out that it's not economical to send ...

... was not bad at all. The first 3 hours we get some sandy, but flat ways, and the the more you approach the capital, the better it gets. We even get some maccadam ! Yes madam.

But if the road was better, that was not the case of the "athmosphere" in the bus. Just imagine a standard 2 floor bus, with a huge TV set in the upper bagage case every 2 meters. The volume button being locked to the maximal level, and the same karaoke DVD beeing played all the time... Even with ear ...

... formed the impression that most of Siem Reap could have landed in Cambodia from Western Europe, for all the similarity it bears to the rest of the country. Our moto driver, shouting over his shoulder as he did so, told us the rates for the top rooms in a hotel we were passing. A suite could be had at a cost of nine hundred dollars a night. Gleaming minibuses filled with pasty-skinned Europeans rolled out of the gates as we passed. The minibuses, each one a capsule of air ...