In the morning I headed to Feeling Home with Robert and did some work on the English curriculum. Around noon Robert and I joined Saxon and Dave (Aussies) and Susanna (American) in Maly's tuk tuk to head to watch the Khmer Rouge trials. To catch you up to speed, first you need to know that the Khmer Rouge were a political regime in charge of Cambodia in the late 70's. They planned the most extreme, brutal form of Communism ever seen anywhere. The idea was to start from scratch, from a cooperative agricultural society. In order to accomplish this, they kick [View Full Entry]

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Slept in, loved it. Packed and headed to a cafe to check internet. Went to lunch at Romdeng- the sister restaurant to Friends. It was really, really yummy although I wouldn't recommend the weird dessert dumplings... But I DO recommend the pumpkin and coconut curry- YUM YUM YUM. We checked out the nice hotel where Megan and her friends are staying tonight, then I checked back in to the good old Top Banana. Home Sweet Home! Robert's my new roommate there. We hung out for awhile- I watched an episode of The Wire then it was dinnertime. Top Banana has surprisingly [View Full Entry]

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Pretty chill day today- woke up with a massive hangover at Kat's and slowly made my way back to the B-Team apartment. I went to Feeling Home for awhile to check my email and whatnot, then headed back to meet Megan and her friends. Megan's friend Lindsay and her new husband Jason had just arrived and we all sat around for awhile chatting. We went to dinner at Friends- as always it was ridiculously delicious- seriously, if you go nowhere else in PP, that's the place you need to eat!! We went to Fly Lounge for a little bit- cute bar- [View Full Entry]

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This morning I woke up early and got a bus from Kep to Phnom Penh. The guy at my hotel literally stopped a bus going down the street and convinced the driver to let three of us on. He relented, but we were placed in the very back of the bus. This is not a good place to be on a bus going over gully-sized potholes for 4 hours... My back and I survived the ride, partially due to making friends with this older dude from Amsterdam. He has lived in Southeast Asia for twenty years and was telling me all [View Full Entry]

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Today ended my vacation in Viet Nam. I'm back in Kep now, and will be heading back to Phnom Penh in the morning. The journey today to get from point A to point B, which, on a map is only 30 miles apart, was even weirder and longer than on the way there in the first place. JOURNEY TO KEP: ADVENTURES IN VIETNAMESE TOURISM 5:30 a.m.: Wake up, finish packing and shower 6:30 a.m.: Wait for a ride to the ferry. Mistakenly get into a taxi that is going to the airport; Get out in time to hear the honk of [View Full Entry]

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I'm not going to write much for today, because I really didn't do much. We tried to go next door and use their internet but the wifi wasn't working so I grabbed a taxi to Buddy's Ice Cream in the town. I had another adorable taxi driver- I'm convinced every 20-30 year old male on this island is driving a taxi, because the island's not that big and I've yet to have a repeat driver... anyway, he was a cutie and trying to practice his English. I got to Buddy's and sat there for hours on the internet. I met a [View Full Entry]

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Today we woke up early and got breakfast at the hotel. Soon our driver came to pick us up. A few other people from our hotel were going on the same tour. We got loaded into a van and headed south to Sao Beach. Everyone we've talked to mentions this beach as the nicest beach on the island. As we got to the beach we were loaded onto a little boat to take us out to our bigger boat which was to be our home for the day :-) Another boatload of people got on, too. There was one older couple [View Full Entry]

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After the bottle of wine last night, we headed over to this bar called the Dog Bar. It's owned by an Aussie guy named Jimmy. We met a couple of older ex-pats guys and a Vietnamese lady who runs tours. She had the CUTEST puppy, so little. We played with it for awhile and chatted with people. We had quite a debacle on our way home. Jimmy was being an ass to our taxi driver- some ex-pats have this entitled attitude toward people where they live that is totally uncalled for and disgusting. Jimmy seems to be one of those people. [View Full Entry]

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Today I woke up super late, like at 11. Heather, on the other hand, started waking up at like 1 am and kept waking up. Ah, jet lag. I got up and changed into my swimsuit, got some breakfast, then got in the water. We're right on the Gulf of Thailand and the water is great. It's warm, like bathwater. We're going to arrange some snorkeling for sometime later this week- so excited! I might try to go diving as well, but that depends on how much it costs. After going in the water for awhile, I laid in the hammock [View Full Entry]

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I made it Viet Nam! If you look on a map of the distance I covered today it is laughable that it took me as long as it did, but thanks to a lack of ferries from Cambodia to the island, limited ferries in general, and border crossings, it took me a grand total of 10 hours and 6 forms of transportation to get from Kep, Cambodia, to Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam. On a map, they are 30 miles apart. I decided to make a Google Map to illustrate my trip. Check it out--> [url=http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=105668210242270832777.00046d637baf2f32b72fd&ll [View Full Entry]

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