So we arrived at the airport about an hour early and then
the plane was late; so there was a lot of waiting around. And that was only the
beginning of bad things happening. One of the girls in the tour forgot to renew
her passport and it was too close to her expiration date; so they sent her
home. Yeah, that stunk; so for all who
are traveling outside of home country; make sure you’re passport has more than
a few weeks left in it. Be careful.
So getting our visa took a bit of time, so yet again we were
the last out. But there was a sign waiting just for us, or at least for my
sister. For some reason they used my sister’s name to represent our whole tour.
Tasha got a kick out of that, but we did have to collect
everyone else in the tour,seriously, the actual name of the tour was so small
no one else noticed it.
Well, our guide, Narun, was extremely accommodating. And
informative; according to him there are 292 temples in Cambodia, and most of
the rest of the time I couldn’t understand him…. Oh well, our hotel was
awesome; the hotels here were crazy nice.
Our guide said we had a free afternoon but if we wanted he
could set something up for us. So of course we let him.
We had lunch in the lobby: Lok Lak and chicken curry; fruit
shake and taro ice cream. Very tasty.
We then jumped on our own four person motorcycle pulled
carriage, or tuktuk; and we went on a tour of the town. We got to see more of
the hotels which looked like temples themselves. So extravagant! After driving
around a bit we hit the Cambodian old market. There were cheap macaroons and
fun items only made Cambodia; I got earrings! There was also blue pumpkin ice
ream, which tasted like gelato!
Another stop was a shop called Boutique Art, which had
really expensive merchandise; no one bought anything..
One of the major points in Cambodian history was the
genocide that happened in the 60s or was it the 70s. Anyways, we visited one of
the killing fields. It was next to a budhist temple where there were children
praying. It was one of those pause for respect moments. Our guide shared that
his cousin was in charge of killing people only because if he didn’t he would
be killed. If anything it just reminded us how recent that horrible event
happened.
They dropped us off at the night market; this was the place
to shop! I found my cambodien patch and some fisherman pants! It was awesome!
There were five of us and we needed to find our own way
back; so we all jumped in a tuktuk; yeah, those only sits four but we squeezed
in and that meant it was only a dollar each. So cheap.
We got back to the hotel ok and it was a good end of the
day!
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