Cambodia
Well not quite ready to subject outselves to a 12 hour bus journey across the border we took a short flight to Pnonh penh (sp?). the plane was small and crusty, but we arrived safe.
Its an interesting place, clean, good streets, savy advertising, EVERYTHING in american dollars, a big, big change from Nam.
The tourist strip we were staying on was by the water which reminded me of the yarra with more mud and boats.
Took a few moto's for the day and went and visited the sites. Temples, palaces, shopping centre's, the works. Its a really charming city, a big change from Nam and personally i could see myslef living there for a short space of time.
Lots of knock of stuff, I bought my first pile of rip off Polo's and other random stuff, you can feel the difference....but for a dollar..who cares.
Our moto driver took us to an authentic Cambodian restaurant, which was over the big bridge adn a few KM's from town. THe restaurant was big, massive, and glitzy, really the type of place for weddings, barmitzvah's and other events. there was singing, and what I can only guess to be comedians, food wasn't too expensive, booze was stupidly cheap (as it is in all of Cambodia), and we were only looked at like we were Aliens for the first 20 minutes or so. Oh and one other thing...BEER GIRLS, we sa down and we were pounced on by 6 girls in different alcohol brand uniforms, Heineken lost out cause her outfit was gross and she didn't do it justice...but misss Tiger beer.....better, much better.
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A few days later we're in Siem Riap, and frankly it shocked and frightened me, it reminded meof Cancun, a place buit for tourists, lots of them, tons of hotels, locals used to tourists, great cocktails.... etc.
Its an interesting place, clean, good streets, savy advertising, EVERYTHING in american dollars, a big, big change from Nam.
The tourist strip we were staying on was by the water which reminded me of the yarra with more mud and boats.
Took a few moto's for the day and went and visited the sites. Temples, palaces, shopping centre's, the works. Its a really charming city, a big change from Nam and personally i could see myslef living there for a short space of time.
Lots of knock of stuff, I bought my first pile of rip off Polo's and other random stuff, you can feel the difference....but for a dollar..who cares.
Our moto driver took us to an authentic Cambodian restaurant, which was over the big bridge adn a few KM's from town. THe restaurant was big, massive, and glitzy, really the type of place for weddings, barmitzvah's and other events. there was singing, and what I can only guess to be comedians, food wasn't too expensive, booze was stupidly cheap (as it is in all of Cambodia), and we were only looked at like we were Aliens for the first 20 minutes or so. Oh and one other thing...BEER GIRLS, we sa down and we were pounced on by 6 girls in different alcohol brand uniforms, Heineken lost out cause her outfit was gross and she didn't do it justice...but misss Tiger beer.....better, much better.
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A few days later we're in Siem Riap, and frankly it shocked and frightened me, it reminded meof Cancun, a place buit for tourists, lots of them, tons of hotels, locals used to tourists, great cocktails.... etc.
1 Comments:
YAY beer girls...I hope you got photos. Not that I should be so creepy, I used to be a coopers girl.
Glad to hear to both are having such a great time.
Natxx
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