Bavet, Cambodia

... history, frantic mopeds and business savvy minds, Cambodia was a small shock in the difference of the people. Cambodia, unlike Vietnam is a democratic nation which seems to shun the past, behave less frantically and still have business savvy yet ...

... three ridiculous hours. Though the border was free of touts, extortion, and hassles, we much prefer the faster crossing from Thailand to Cambodia-or any other border we've crossed to date, so far.   A few more hot miserable hours saw us dropped off ...

Argh, so goddam hot!!!! Had a great morning when the kids from the orphanage knocked on my door at 6:15am to see me off and help me carry my bags to the bus. I have such wonderful brothers and sisters . . . . and yet I'm leaving them all behind!

... like forever - I've had too many overnight bus trips and big nights out in Vietnam. The smiling happy people of today's Cambodia are such a huge contrast to what I was to experience in Phnom Penh, visiting the sombre Khmer Rouge killing fields and S21 ...