The three day boat trip from Vietnam into Cambodia along the Mekong Delta brought us to a floating market, fishing village, a crocodile farm (I thought this was for rescued crocs but it turns out the crocs were being turned into shoes and hand bags!!!), a village where they showed us how to make coconut candy yum yum , then on a speed boat the following day that took us into Cambodia. When we arrived in Phnom Penh the heat was mental! We got a Tuk Tuk to our hotel – there was no way we were carrying backpacks in that heat. After getting checked in we took went for a walk about – you can see the French influence in the city with the wide boulevards lined with trees but it wasn’t a particularly pretty
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