There and back again

Trip Start Feb 21, 2008
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Trip End Mar 18, 2008

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Friday, March 14, 2008

We left Siam Reap yesterday and got the bus back to Phnom Penh. Sugar, our tuk tuk driver had told us he booked us the best seats on the bus, so there we were right up the front underneath the telly playing very loud Cambodian pop videos! The front of the bus was infested with mozzies, the driver kept leaving the door open so they were all coming in to the cooler air so we entertained ourselves killing them for a few hours. We also had a birds eye view of the road which in this situation was NOT GOOD. We made it back to PP in about 2 hours less than it took to drive to Siam Reap because the driver was a speed demon! We drove most of the way on the wrong side of the road - after a few very close shaves I just read my book and refused to look out the window. But it was great to get there early. At one of our toilet stops, there were some ladies selling fried insects (cockroaches I think), I took a picture but declined her offer of a free sample (I was scared, they were BIG).

Our hotel in Phnom Penh is really nice. There is a hairdryer! I look normal again! Last night we went down to the riverfront area and had pizza and chips (I know I know but I am sick of rice) and went for a drink in the Foreign Correspondents Club - really nice place but full of greenflies. You wouldn't mind but there were loads of lizards all over the walls, but they were obviously the fat lazy variety of lizard.

Today we went to the killing fields and the genocide museum. Very very sad. I'm glad I went but I'm not going to put up the pictures. On the way back our tuk tuk driver was trying to get us to book him for tomorrow, but haven't planned our days in advance so we said no. Obviously business is slow because he then asked us if we want to buy marijuana! well. do we LOOK like we want to buy marijuana? we thought we looked respectable but we are obviously looking a bit frayed around the edges!

To cheer ourselves up we went to the Russian market - a huge market that sells absolutely everything. lots of brand names for cheap that "leak" into the market and bootleg cds and dvds. This is the first hotel we have stayed in that has an actual bar so we're off to the bar now for some refreshments after such a hard day...
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