Travel to Phnom Penh

Trip Start Oct 25, 2006
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Trip End Nov 19, 2006


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Thursday, November 2, 2006

Half a day in Siem Reap and the flew down to Phnom Penh. Spent the morning walking around the Old Market in Siem Reap. A wide range of stuff on sale. From an area selling fine jewellery through clothes, quality and not, hardware and food, which a locals eating area. Lots fresh and live fish, vegetables of all shapes, sizes and colours and meats, including little old ladies sat chopping up frogs. Sticking to the food theme for a while the basic food over here is rice, with fried meats usually pork or chicken and some veg french beans are very popular. It seems they eat rice 3 times a day. The fruit is very good. On the street there are ladies selling whole pineapples neatly skinned and sectioned up for eating, 50c for a whole one. Bananas are also popular, smaller and greener than ours back home but taste pretty much the same.

Just to go off on another tangent, money in Cambodia. The official currency is the Rial (KHR) but the Dollar is the actual currency. Everything is priced in dollars, everyone uses dollars, but as there are no US coins over here the odd change is made up from local currency with 4000 KHR to the dollar.

Flight down to Phnom Penh was about 45 mins and hassle free. Siem Reap Airways. The meal on the plane was a vegetable pasty with a sachet of Heinz Chilli sauce.

In the evening we went out for a meal, I had Morning Glory (water spinach), Cambodian Curry (quite aniseed in taste) and frogs legs (they taste a bit like chicken) with lemon grass and chilli. After meal we were brought out plates and plates of complementary different fruits and deserts. Pineapple, banana, a sweet made from palm sugar, dragon fruit, ... And to top it off as they were giving out the bills and sorting things out we all got head and neck massages from the cute little waitresses!
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