Angkor part deux
Friday, January 4th, 2008After my first day of temple exploring, I was hungry and decided to try some of the food stalls around the market. They run about $0.75-$1 for a meal instead of paying $3 for the same meal in the restaurant. They are also quite clean looking and frequented by foreigners. As I walked to a nearby restaurant, I felt a strong tug on my arm and looked down to see this little Cambodian boy >3 hanging from my arm with a huge grin on his face. He had his legs up and was swinging. I am not sure where he came from, but I swung him around for a while and then managed to disentangle myself from him. He ran off somewhere with a younger looking girl. I believe they were children from one of the stall workers. I made it to my chosen stall and sat down. I ordered fried rice and a dragon fruit shake. The food and shake were very good as I had never eaten dragon fruit before. Sitting next to me was a German who decided to have a conversation with me in German with about two English words thrown in. All I could make out was there was some area in Thailand with lots of people trying to push girls on you (not Bangkok). I could never figure out how he felt about that, so I just nodded and made agreeing noises at what seemed appropriate times. After supper I went in the market just to see what a Laos guidebook would cost. I had paid $11 for a used four-year-old one in Bangkok. Wouldn’t you know, the latest Laos guidebooks were on sale here for $3.50 brand new. I went ahead and bought one. I will trade both books when I get back to Thailand and hopefully make all of my money back on the brand new guide book plus some. [read on]
cjun