Sights,smells and sounds of Cambodia.
August 13th 2010
Published: August 13th 2010
Published: August 13th 2010
13.8.2010, Siem Reap (by the way the name means 'Thailand defeated' (!)
Here are some of the sights, smells and sounds that the P family has so far noted on our trip to Cambodia, in no particular order ...
- Dinky little milk personal milk jugs with your cup of tea
- Graceful cycle rickshaws with the driver almost standing at the back
- Hotel signs - no durian, no radioactive materials / explosives
- pedestrian traffic lights where the green man runs then sprints as time runs out to cross
- recycling carts that hoot as they approach
- ice cream carts playing a tune from The Pirates of Penzance (Chloë spotted that one)
- Many million motorbikes all going in different directions all over the roads ( I recommend just shutting your eyes when travelling by tuk tuk)
- shrines everywhere! The one in our little cafe had been given cigarettes.
- street children selling books in baskets
- giggling young Cambodian men
- mobiles, mobiles everywhere
- the women wearing their pyjamas all day
- babies and toddlers on the back of motorbikes - and not a helmet in sight
- whole families being transported by tuk tuk (ie about 20 people)
- huge pigs strapped to the back of motorbikes
- chickens everywhere, even at the Killing Fields
- Ox
- rubbish / rubble all over the streets
- lady boy in Phnom Penh: a waitress who spoke with a deep voice and had a 5 o'clock shadow
- man with Viet- mac, sunglasses, conical hat, cigarette, leading two cows
- the lovely tailors shop over the road from our hotel full of girls sewing beautiful stones and sequins onto silk, (will explain what we were doing in there when we return - long story involving Chloë!)
- piles of baguettes (it used to be French)
- lexus cars (yes, utterly gross)
love from the P family: John, Jenny, Chloë (16) and Ruby (10) xxxx -
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