Scandinavia Hotel Phnom Penh

... Siem Reap, we've seen a decent amount of Cambodia's central interior. The countryside looks an awful lot like Saskatchewan's in terms of flatness, except you see miles and miles of rice paddies instead of wheat fields. There's also considerably more naked children running about in Cambodia, although I suspect we'd see more in Saskatchewan if it was +35 degree C every day. We arrived in Phnom Penh early afternoon at the bus terminal along the ...

... Qui Nhon, and Saigon. And they had real Tapatios, which is always nice. <br><br> We sat and had several beers over good conversation. We were seated next to a ***** house. It was interesting watching some of the interactions between the patrons and the girls. Some of the girls were clearly lady boys, which always makes for an interesting scene. Sometimes Iwonder "Does he know that he's talking to a ladyboy?" It came time for Mike to head off and we went home as well and called it a night. Gotta love Cambodia.

... is everywhere. I also noticed a lot of shops with Chinese names besides its Cambodian ones, and saw a lot of Chinese tourists in a big, fancy casino not far from my humble hotel. <br><br>My first outing was to the Killing Field, and then the Genocide Museum.<br><br>May be I should do it the other way around, because the Genocide Museum, a high school complex of two 3-storied buildings that the Khmer Rouge converted into interrogate center named it ...

... atmosphere, service, food and drinks (frozen daquaris, yum). Can't recommend the place enough, in you're in PP go there and you won't regret it. After that we wandered down to the riverfront to find a bar that served $0.70 pints. Not a big night out but good.<br><br>Next morning a group of us rented a minibus from the hotel to do what seems to be the standard PP tour. First we went to Tuol sleung prison or S-21 then to the Killing Fields. I don't think ...

... Mr Samith amongst the missing) sadly made a greater impression, and left us feeling sorry for ourselves and unappreciated, feeling resentment for the time and money we had donated. It was, however, for the kids that we had made the donation, and those other issues are easily swept aside. <br><br>Check out their website to see what they're about: www.savechildreninasia.org<br>They are in the process of setting up an online donation facility - at the moment it would cost you too much in ...

... other and buried, sometimes even buried alive. And when you walk up to the monument in the middle of the Killing Fields, you walk inside and what you see is levels and levels of skulls. Hundreds and hundreds of them. People were arrested by the Khmer Rouge and brought, by the truck load, to the killing fields. It was often peasants that would be forced to execute these people, and to save on the costs of ammunition they mostly did it by using hammers, axe handles, spades, bamboo ...

... the rubber.... then he took us to a 'tribal village' but we think got lost and just took us to 'a village' where the locals hid in their houses when they saw us coming and we wondered what the hell we were supposed to do!! (Our driver didn't speak English!)<br>We stopped for lunch in Ban Lung.... after laid-back Laos this was like the wild west for me... the market... selling everything including raw meat and fish... was in a massive smelly mud pit where you could smell sewage and ...

... We were blessed by a guest DJ from Ukraine. The music selection was good, and the DJ and MC were off the charts. The music stopped after every song, because the DJ didn&#8217;t know how to mix music. I could have totally created a battle of the DJs if I would have remembered to bring my IPOD. Though I don&#8217;t know that Sarah could have competed with the MC who after every song, shouted in English with a Khmer accent, &#8220;Come on ...

... range of issues. I then went to have dinner at a local restaurant, I must admit there are so many nice restaurant in Phnom Penh which would not look out of place in Western Europe. I had a nice meal and just people watched. Went back to the hotel and chilled, had a nap. I woke up and went too see what the night life was like. It was a disappointment, there was nothing happening. I ended up in a local bar with some foreigners that I had met previously in the day.<br>