Cambodia...land of 'love u a long time'

Trip Start Sep 06, 2007
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Trip End Sep 04, 2008


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Thursday, November 1, 2007

After many boats (big ones, small ones, long ones, short ones, shipwrecked one and wooden seat for 5 hour ones), walks and ass-breaking buses...we arrived in Cambodian soil. The roads in this country have never seen concrete let alone tarmac!  Potholes that make Ireland's potholes look like raindrops...there are literally creators!  It is very common here for the buses to cut out and wait to start up again!

We arrived on the Kings 86th birthday so traffic was mental, not to talk of our stoned tuc-tuc driver...who I am sure had no idea where he was going.  Our guest house was a mad experience for me as I had to race in and out of it because of all the cats lurking around..We hired the same tuc-tuc driver (amazingly his name was James!!) to the Killing Fields.  Here there are approx 9000 exhumed skulls in a very tall glass case, it is to honour all the Cambodian people who were killed under the Khmer Rouge times.  It is very eerie...there are many more graves still to be exhumed. Driving down along the road we pass this really young boy, maybe 10 years old in a puddle of water washing down his cow, just up from that are the rest of the cows lining up waiting to be washed as well....they are mad around here!

There isn't alto to do here, we saw most of the city in one day...the poverty is very prominent here and its really hard to see, its very upsetting.  All the children are swimming in the water monument- the local swimming pool but amazingly they seem really happy!  We met lots of other travelers, English, Irish, American, and feel obliged to have a few drinks with them...hangover in the heat is pure torture!!!...time to move on!
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