The
first thing I remember about Cambodia was the extensive amounts of people offering you rides. When I arrived at the airport to meet Rob and Jon there weren't there quite yet. As I walked out it was just a swarm of Khmer men's persuading me to catch a ride on either their motorbike, in a
TUK TUK or taxi. I didn't capture a picture of it because I was trying to be invisible. However, below is an image of this sort of thing:
Tuk Tuk men on the move after our boat landed close to
Siem Reap.
The boat ride from
Phomn Penh was relaxing and it allowed me to see a lot of Cambodia's countryside. Floating villages and stilted houses were the norm. The Khmer people live and work on the water. Something I had never even really considered or thought about being a land dweller from Saskatchewan. It was a great to watch as we cruised by.
In
Phnom Penh, we did mostly some sight seeing and market shopping. It was the first few days of my vacation and I was just getting used to the new area I had arrived in. Below is the Silver Pagoda. There was such beautiful architecture. For me most enjoyable because of how colourful the buildings are.
The markets were most interesting for me. At this time I was not ready to buy anything, but Rob convinced me to get a pair of Ray Ban rip off sunglasses. It was a good $3 purchase. Sadly
I ended up
losing them in Bangkok the last day of my trip. The markets were so huge! Anything you could possibly need was there, in massive quantities...and cheap too! At every booth there was a salesperson usually females, even young children. Their voices echo in my mind still, "come on lady, I sell to you cheap cheap". That statement still echos in my brain. When it comes down to buying just name your price and you've got it!
Modes of transportation and safety are much different in Cambodia than home and in Japan. I love this picture especially. However, unfortuanately it was not uncommon to see a parent and their child cruising on a motor bike, the small child in front not strapped in or anything.
Lastly, in
Phnom Penh we spent one depressing but important day at
Tuol Sleng SP21 (security prison) and The Killing Fields. Two places that show remains and give information about the Genocide of Pol Pot's communist regime during 1975-1978.
The boat ride from Phomn Penh was relaxing and it allowed me to see a lot of Cambodia's countryside. Floating villages and stilted houses were the norm. The Khmer people live and work on the water. Something I had never even really considered or thought about being a land dweller from Saskatchewan. It was a great to watch as we cruised by.
In Phnom Penh, we did mostly some sight seeing and market shopping. It was the first few days of my vacation and I was just getting used to the new area I had arrived in. Below is the Silver Pagoda. There was such beautiful architecture. For me most enjoyable because of how colourful the buildings are.
The markets were most interesting for me. At this time I was not ready to buy anything, but Rob convinced me to get a pair of Ray Ban rip off sunglasses. It was a good $3 purchase. Sadly I ended up losing them in Bangkok the last day of my trip. The markets were so huge! Anything you could possibly need was there, in massive quantities...and cheap too! At every booth there was a salesperson usually females, even young children. Their voices echo in my mind still, "come on lady, I sell to you cheap cheap". That statement still echos in my brain. When it comes down to buying just name your price and you've got it!
Modes of transportation and safety are much different in Cambodia than home and in Japan. I love this picture especially. However, unfortuanately it was not uncommon to see a parent and their child cruising on a motor bike, the small child in front not strapped in or anything. 
Lastly, in Phnom Penh we spent one depressing but important day at Tuol Sleng SP21 (security prison) and The Killing Fields. Two places that show remains and give information about the Genocide of Pol Pot's communist regime during 1975-1978. 
those curved pointy things at the peaks of the roofs are crazy! how do they not get broken off in storms??
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