Cambodia

Saturday, November 07th, 2009 / James

As per Rob's speech at the reception, all local toilet customs were followed to the letter. Including the one about not standing on the seat!

After reading the Rough Guide on the plane, Ruth was preparing to spend her time in Phnom Penh locked in the guest house! In the taxi from the airport we were asked if we wanted to go and shoot some machine guns or throw a few hand grenades (apparently British tourists love it), which we kindly declined and Ruth panicked some more! However, we didn’t encounter any problems at all and had three good days in Phnom Penh. The food was fantastic (Friends, a charity restaurant, was some of the best food we’d had since the Cruise). We did the National Museum and Palace one day and then had a very somber day visiting the Killing Fields and S21 Prison. Put everything into perspective.

Then we travelled for 5 hours by bus to Siem Reap and had four amazing days cycling to and around Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat. AMAZING! There were wild monkeys on the road into Angkor Thom which you could feed bananas to, Ruth was in monkey heaven! The ruins were breath taking and we had a great time cycling around discovering everything ourselves rather than in a tut tut like everyone else (although it was VERY hot). Our last night in Cambodia was spent having a Happy Special pizza, which we can confirm lived up to its name!!