PHNOM PENH: Photos 21 to 36

25.11.08

Km travelled 19182

Time to go. Our visit to Vietnam for this time is at the end. It's not yet the time for me to express my thoughts on this experience, I'm still meditating.
We leave quite early and the journey to Phnom Penh will take us seven hours.
We meet other travellers, we get bored together waiting at the border, we set foot together for the first time in the Kingdom of Cambodia. They are a couple of Scottish, a kiwi ex pat girl, and a Swedish girl. It's always good to have some mates for a trip like this.
I never put my mind into imagining how Cambodia would look like. My first impression of Cambodia doesn't differ in anything with the idea I've always had of India. Incredibly poor, terribly dirty, white bony cows hanging around, children sitting naked playing on endless rivers of rubbish. Generally not a pleasant view, and atmosphere, I would add.
Hordes of kids begging everywhere and crying (or I should say, pretending to) if you don't give them money. Even a tuk tuk driver did the same when we refused his offer after getting off the bus. We walked the

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