Blogs from Phnom Penh, South, Cambodia, Asia - page 190

The airport in Phnom Penh reminded me of one of those small tropical landing strips they call an airport in developing Caribbean nations. We descended the wheeled staircase to the tarmac and were engulfed in the morning heat. We followed the rush of other travelers inside the small airport and headed toward immigration, conveniently located just inside. A line had started to form, but in true Asian fashion, didn’t last long. It quickly became a tiny mob scene with people pushing and shoving their way up to the counter. Luckily, we were near the front so we handed over our passports and $20 US for the visa and were told to wait. We stood near the front of the crowd of tourists, rather impatiently, waiting for their visas. There was no rhyme or reason to who’s ... read more

We had forgotten to mention a few interesting things in the last post abt PP..here goes, in no particular order. When we had a few extra hrs, we happened to see a 'beauty salon' and Am thought she'd go check out their services. When asked how much it cost for eyebrows, they replied $1. It sounded good, but luckily she didn't jump on board immediately, and asked them if they threaded or waxed. We ddn't even think of any other possibility, but the woman looked confused, and pulled out a blade. Yes, a genuine steel blade. Am was in turn confused and initially thought there was some mechanism or some other contraption linked to it, but nope - thery really just use it directly! Well we definitely got out of there fast, thankful that we had ... read more

NOTE: I had more pictures of the Angkor region to show you. Here they are, along with my journal entry for Phnom Penh. The road to the Cambodian capital from Siem Reap is smooth. The bus is inexpensive, and the journey is uneventful. All of these factors made for a very pleasant ride, indeed. I was compelled to write about this because you can take these things for granted when you live in Canada, and your average highway speed is 120km/hr on what I have now come to romanticize as billiard-table-smooth roads. Our arrival at the "bus station" was greeted with much fanfare from the local purveyors of intra-city transport. As far as two blocks away from our point of dis-embarkment that taxi and tuk-tuk drivers crowded the bus, peering in, looking for white faces: these ... read more

Happy new year to you all, its the year of pig and the celebrations in Cambodia are in full swing!! They have a massive Chinese population over here so its party party!! My last few days have been pretty mad!! Firstly let me apologise that there won't be any photos for a week or so as i left my cable that connects my camera to the PC in Pakse and its a bank holiday here so everywhere is shut, i probably won't get to buy one now till i arrive in Saigon, next week! Anyhow, I've been having a brilliant time since my last blog, I've met loads more brilliant people and a few wierdos, I've been enjoying relaxing in Don Det and getting drunk in Cambodia and had a really interesting but emotional day yesterday ... read more

It's been a very long time but... from Phi Phi we went to Phuket town where we spent two days checking out the city. There really wasn't much there, we did end up going to a Thai movie theater. There was only one movie that had english sub titles, so we had to go to that one. It was a pretty good movie, but they turn up the air con so high in the theater,I was shivering about 20 min into it. I felt like I was back home already!! From Phuket we went to Khao Lak, which is on the mainland, but still on the coast. From there we took a day diving trip to the Similin Islands where we got to dive with Manta Rays. They were so amazing, we saw about 6 and ... read more