We made it into Phnom Penh yesterday morning after a relatively sleepless night as we'd left our hotel at 4 AM to make the red eye flight. Cambodia is something else... For one thing, the traffic is crazy here, Basically, if it has wheels and can somehow move, you'll find it on the streets. Motorbikes are the primary mode of transportation and they'll pile as many people as possible on one of them. The record so far that I've seen is 5 people, but I was too slow with my camera. There are also animal-drawn carts, bicycles, moto-driven carts and tuk tuks (but they don't call them that here). Driving against traffic to make a left turn is perfectly acceptable, and there aren't many traffic lights, which would be ok except that in those cases,
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