Riverside Hotel
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The bus that just kept on going and stopping!
Day 16 -
Up at 5 and down to reception to be told by the hotel owner that our travel agent had called to say that the bus had been delayed and we now wouldn’t be getting picked up until 8. Now we have become extremely weary of locals as they seem to lie a lot in order to feather their own nest and as the hotelier sold travel …
Cruising into Phnom Penh on boat...
Up at 6am for a quick trip over to the market to grab a salad roll and drink for the boat ride down the Mekong today. After a boiled egg roll we hopped in the bus and drove down to the dock to board our little boat - it seats about 14 and it has little roll down plastic sides to keep the sun/rain out. The Mekong is a massive body of water and we …
Is this Africa?
Arriving in Cambodia by bus we waiter at the boarder for more than 5 hours. Houses seem to be on stilts. So far people look similar than Vietnamese. Wow can't believe the difference in two countries seeming so similar. Cambodia is Rural Afrika in south east Asia.
Big kids play time
After we got to Siem Reap and I'd recovered from what Google said was anything from an ingrowing toenail to a heart attack, we played the tourists and explored the area a bit. We hired a couple of bicycles to take us up to Angkor Wat and the main temply bit. It was only about 6k to the first one and it wasn't until we reached the "Temple Zone" ( …
Not Easy To Write But Easy To Say
Everything that I have seen up until this point of travel in Cambodia had been the nice part. Not that I am saying Phnom Penh is the bad part but it is not that beautiful and the sights that I saw, well let's just say they were interestingly reflective (if that makes sense).
First thing first, I wanted to pop back into Vietnam (and really …
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