One Big Adventure

You cant visit Phnom Penh without visiting the killing fields, the Tousang prison and watching a movie or two about all the atrocities under the regime of the Khmer Rouge in mid to late seventies. Around 2 million people were either executed or died of starvation. It’s a real eye-opener.

Our second bus trip (the first when crossing the border) and a second dodgy road side meal consisting of a kind of cold lentil/noodle soup, took us to the dusty town of Siem Reap. Being quite a laid back town it is definitely a place to hang your hat for a couple of days or 4, and a 3 day pass to visit the temples of Angkor means you can come and go as you please. I have to admit, I’m not the biggest fan of wondering round ancient ruins all day, especially in a 35 degree heat, but the temples of Angkor did not fail to impress, we even made it to Angkor Wat for the sunrise.

I have enjoyed our short but sweet trip to Cambodia and will certainly miss the ‘cook your own soup’ restaurants, where you order plates of noodles, meat, veg etc. and cook it in a boiling clay pot of soup in the center of your table, sat on a gas burner, at your leisure. Genius!

Pete Writes: ‘Hello tuk tuk!’ is all you hear in Cambodia so much so I was beginning to think it was the national greeting! Add to this beggars and sellers on every corner it can get a bit too much. However once you stop and think about what they have been through, you become a little better at dealing with them. I just wish that the kids were at school rather than trying to sell you fridge magnets!