Off the Beaten Track, Phnom Penh Pictures: Photos 63 to 72

After settling down a bit in Phnom Penh, the city became familiar. It was more developed than I had imagined, and the people were the friendliest I had ever encountered- especially if you know a few words of Khmer! My vocabulary was expanding- numbers 1-10, "Hello", "Goodbye", "Little Brother", "Big Sister", "Big Man", "how much", "I have", "left", "right"... With the major attractions from my sister's itinerary out of the way, events Off The Beaten Track were all that was left.

This included a trip to the city dumps, where the hardest working people in the world endure the worst of conditions to make something from nothing. My sister brought 15 or so vitamin fortified fruit drinks to give to the children, while I was armed with bags of candy. After a 15 minute drive through town, the tuk-tuk pulled off on a side street. Slowly but surely more trash appeared and the smell became worse. Dwellings disappeared and the road started to disintegrate. This is where the tuk-tuk driver would wait for us as we continued on foot to the mountain of trash.

It was a bit strange, because anywhere else in the world I might be fearing

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