The madness of the past week
Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 07:19AM Whew...just need a moment to catch my breath really. The last week has been pretty crazy. Started with a night out in Bangkok. The first time we have gone out to the clubs here and of course we do it on a night before a bus trip to Cambodia that begins at 7am. Needless to say we didn't make it home til 4am...so sleep was limited.
Then when we stopped for lunch, Debbie hit her knee. Apparently she has done this in the past and it causes her to faint. Well this time, she didn't faint, but she ended up getting quite sick. We had to stay in some town (don't know the name of it) and she slept for about 20 hours. We continued onto Cambodia the next day. If we thought the roads in myanmar were bad...the road from Poipet, Cambodia to Seam Riep are even worse. 300kn took 9 hours to travel. We had many stops along the way. The first stop was because a truck had jack knifed in the middle of the road and there was no getting around it. You don't really leave the beaten path for fear of running over a land mine. Then the next stop was because at one point the road narrowed down to single lane and a car had gotten stuck in all the mud. The last time we stopped was because a truck and trailer coming in the other direction was stopped in the middle of the road and the driver was drunk and almost tried to start a fight with our bus driver.
Finally we arrived...and thankfully our guesthouse was totally charming.
We explored Angkor Wat with our new friend from England (Lee). The first day we took a tuk tuk around and saw some of the ruins, the next day we went by bicycle. It is extremely beautiful...but i have to say that I was more impressed with Bagan in myanmar. I had really high expectations because I had heard it was amazing...and it is, but Bagan to me was more beautiful.
Today was a very sombre day. We are in Phnom Penh and we went to the killing fields in the morning and the Genocide museum in the afternoon. Between 2-3million cambodians were tortured and killed between 1975-1979 by the khmer rouge and both of these places were quite hard to visit. It is sometimes hard to fathom what humans are capable of doing.
