I don’t have much to tell about Cambodia …
I had a great time there, spent around one week on the beach, doing nothing!!! Very relaxing! It was so good to have a rest from the traveling thing…. one week without thinking about next bus, next town, and getting new accommodation! Ate fish and ships every day!! So good!!! Little girls sell the best fruits salads on the beach, lades sell sea food on the stick! As you can see it is a great place for food as well!
I think very hard to write about Cambodia. It is difficult to talk about Cambodia not only because it is considered the most corrupted country in the world or because it is one of the poorest countries in the worlds. I think hard to talk about it because it made a very big, hate grows in my body. It is my hate for USA. I was already a bit anti America before, due to the facts everybody knows. But after Cambodia I really do hate USA ! The only Americans I do like are the ones who have a Canadian flag on their bags because they are ashamed of being Americans! US (together with China) supported financially the most brutal governments that the world has ever seen. (I think it was the only time I could see USA and China support the same idea…only because it was against Vietnam!)… Khmer Rouge. 2 million Cambodia were killed from 1975 till 1979… and hundred of thousand died of its consequences from 1979 till1980.
You still see “mirrors” of Khmer Rouge Government everywhere in Cambodia. You se it through the way people are aggressive, through the fact that all the families and individuals have already seen the death on the door, the largest population on amputees in the world!
I also spent a couple of days in Phnon Penh , visited the S-21 Museum – The Killing Fields ( need to be seen!)
Of course, I couldn’t miss Cambodia biggest Tourist attraction – Angkor . Usually people spend 3 days wondering around the Temples but I only spent one day and half on the Temples! It was more than enough… as in the end all of them are the same – same same – not different at all!!!
My plan was to go to Laos from Cambodia but I had heard that as the border between the two countries isn’t 100% legal… and very corrupted. I decided to go to Laos through north Thailand! Oh no!!! 3 days boat trip to get to Luang Prabang in Laos from Thailand !!!