Next day, after breakfast at the hotel, I went for a wander. Found a bank machine and a bookstore with some english books. Lonely Planet Cambodia! I bought that, no longer was I flying blind. It was wrapped in plastic, as were all the books in the place. I expected it was to prevent rot or pollution or something, but no! It was a pirate book! I've encountered pirate software, pirate movies, pirate music, but this was the first pirate book. The colour pages were immaculate, it was professionally bound, but all the rest was photocopy. wtf?! Anyway, still a valuable resource. I picked out one of the beaches from the book and hired at moto-taxi. (that's getting a helmetless lift on the back of a motorbike). "Victory beach, please" "hello - ok!" So we're driving
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