Cambodia- No more morning glory stems please!!!!

Trip Start Nov 05, 2008

Trip End Nov 30, 2008

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Borei Angkor Hotel Siem Reap

(Siem Reap hotels)

Flag of Cambodia Siem Reap, Cambodia
Sunday, November 23, 2008

I was against adding Cambodia to our list of travels but Ginger insisted that we visit Angkor Wat and was she right. We are having an amazing time here. Other than the visa process which was very similar to Vietnam's and eating stir-fry morning glory stems four days in a row everything has been great. Morning glories maybe once but four straight days over two countries. Enough already. Back to Cambodia. Our guide Hak and driver Mr Bo are really great and informed. They are very proud of their country and exhibit it in the best light. We have had three wonderful guides, Hung in Hanoi, Anh in Hue and Hoi An and Hak here. Our typical comment about our guide in HCMC and Can Tho was "let's ditch the bitch". We got rid of her whenever we could.

Ginger here: Yes, we truly did not care for our HCMC/Mekong Delta guide, but we didn't let her ruin anything. We just let her think that her annoying habit of talking about herself and her clothes and her looks, etc etc were just what we came to Vietnam for! Luckily all the other guides/drivers we arranged for have been wonderful. I have always wanted to see Angkor Wat since I was a kid and first read something about it in National Geographic. The last few days have been nothing short of amazing. We have been clamoring/climbing/hiking and crawling around the jungle and the treasures that were hidden in it for hundreds of years. We have been lucky with the weather here, too, if you can call 32 degrees centigrade (about 91 Nashville degrees) lucky. I've never drunk so much water in my life (or sweat so much) - I have not felt very ladylike in the last few days. Every temple, every stupa, every palace, every structure is more interesting than the last. Every frieze, every carving, every Buddha is more spectacular to see. I should have a blister on my camera button finger very soon. Today I even surprised myself by going up in a balloon to see everything from the air! I'm just about worn out physically with all this activity in the heat, so the last leg of this trip in Hong Kong is looking more and more like R & R time. It probably won't work out that way but I am dreaming of time by the pool and sleeping late. I can't believe that we have just one more week to go. It seems as if we left home just a few days ago, but evidently that's not the case. I haven't really been homesick, but I do miss my "kids" and can't wait to snuggle with them. It's only about 8:45 PM here now but I really need to get to sleep. Another big day (our last in Cambodia) is coming up and I need to be ready for it. So far in our travels Cambodia seems to have the most reliable internet - go figure! Steven will probably try to send out the earlier things that we wrote but couldn't ever get on the blog. Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone. Eat some turkey for me.