traveling beans - part 4 - Cambodia

In-between Thailand and Laos, we visited Cambodia. We arrived at Cambodia's hottest time if year. Lucky us. I have a very efficient sweat system, so every minute of the day I was blinded by my own sweat that rolled from my forehead into my eyes and sometimes all the way into my mouth.







Angkor Watt was definitely a highlight for me. These ancient stone temples have intricately carved pictures and wording, telling stories along the walls; large Buddah faces floating on the tops of the structures and old trees intertwining through some of them too. Too gorge for words!


















South East Asia restaurants (as I have already mentioned several times) fix up the most amazing meals in these tiny little kitchens. They also serve a surprisingly wide range of food, so you can always get a bit of Western food wherever you go. We dined at a restaurant where the menu looked like my 12th grade history project.







Cambodia has a surprisingly Westernized center. It’s super cheap over there, even for my little ole rands. They have a lovely little night market with all sorts of jewelry, trinkets etc.





One of my favourite nights out was when we went out for a meal and met a little girl selling bracelets. She was really well spoken and was a helluva salesperson! We chatted to her for a while and eventually got roped in to buying something.







We also visited an orphanage where we watched the kids perform there New Year celebration show that they had been working on. The plan was to go out into the town and perform for all the locals and tourists. Amazing little ones!







On the way home Dennis decided to get a one dollar haircut in the village. It was all going fine until Dennis said "Can you just cut it a little more?". The barber must have misunderstood because Dennis ended up with an A grade military hair cut. He looked silly. He also got shaved with an open blade. Probably not the best idea to get your beard shaved with an open blade in a 3rd world country village, but we were feeling ever so loose that day.







On the way back to our guesthouse we were hi-jacked by a group of locals celebrating Cambodian New Year. They insisted we stay for a couple of beers and celebrate with them. Not only did they share their beer, but they also shared their weird and not so wonderful food. Another not so great idea- sharing a spoon with strangers in a third world country.





Asia is just a great place to watch the world go by. There is always something going on. We could have sat and watched people for hours - and on most days, we did.