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First 'real' day of visiting PP, yesterday was more just wandering around tired from the arrival in Cambodia. Started by a visit to the vietnam embassy to apply for a visa we'll need in 1 month. Easy paperwork followed by paying a solid 45USD processing fee a head. The days of the lonely planet writing talk about 30USD...right...world economics there you go. At a small increase of "only" 15USD you can even get your visa on the same day...no thanks, we'll wait 1 day, with a 50USD budhet a day for the 2 of us, 30USD carries a big punch. Whatever the LP says, you need to put fixed entry & exit dates on the visa...not all that flexible, but we are planning on using all the days we have in cambodia anyway.
A short ride through the outskirts of PP to the Choeng Ek killing fields later we had the first real taste of cambodian roads...and yeah, it rocks...really. Rocky & sandy with a good amount of holes to dodge (now without bags to make it a bit more easy) Line her arms already started to itch again! Reminds her of our loved cobble belgian roads :-) For some reason line's arms itch when it gets bumpy..? She's in for a scratch the coming months! Note: kids love to pose for a picture, but then the "money?" question easily came out of this one afterwards :-) walking atms? maybe...
Killings fields are a memory to the, very fresh, attrocities commited by Pol Pot & his comrads. A plot of land with numerous mass graves (more than 20,000 dead) of prisoners from the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh. A quick read through our lonely planet tells us we can find a lot of these throughout the country. A grim reminder of what happened only 30y ago. S-21 or Tuol Sleng prison is another visit for tomorrow, enough horror for the day.
On the return trip we visited the "russian market", the cambodian outlet centre for goods that "fell-of-the-truck" (i can understand with those roads) but we don't need anything & we can"t carry it, so a quick stroll later, through shops selling everything from north face bags, kalvin clien underware, tires, carburators & fake antiques we where heading back home to our guesthouse for some relax'in. And how did we relax! Reading a book, sipping from some juice & beer (affordable!! one's more in comparison to malaysia, damn those muslims) laying flat down on a matress with our feet in a pool...cambodia rural...not yet.
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First 'real' day of visiting PP, yesterday was more just wandering around tired from the arrival in Cambodia. Started by a visit to the vietnam embassy to apply for a visa we'll need in 1 month. Easy paperwork followed by paying a solid 45USD processing fee a head. The days of the lonely planet writing talk about 30USD...right...world economics there you go. At a small increase of "only" 15USD you can even get your visa on the same day...no thanks, we'll wait 1 day, with a 50USD budhet a day for the 2 of us, 30USD carries a big punch. Whatever the LP says, you need to put fixed entry & exit dates on the visa...not all that flexible, but we are planning on using all the days we have in cambodia anyway.
A short ride through the outskirts of PP to the Choeng Ek killing fields later we had the first real taste of cambodian roads...and yeah, it rocks...really. Rocky & sandy with a good amount of holes to dodge (now without bags to make it a bit more easy) Line her arms already started to itch again! Reminds her of our loved cobble belgian roads :-) For some reason line's arms itch when it gets bumpy..? She's in for a scratch the coming months! Note: kids love to pose for a picture, but then the "money?" question easily came out of this one afterwards :-) walking atms? maybe...Killings fields are a memory to the, very fresh, attrocities commited by Pol Pot & his comrads. A plot of land with numerous mass graves (more than 20,000 dead) of prisoners from the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh. A quick read through our lonely planet tells us we can find a lot of these throughout the country. A grim reminder of what happened only 30y ago. S-21 or Tuol Sleng prison is another visit for tomorrow, enough horror for the day.
On the return trip we visited the "russian market", the cambodian outlet centre for goods that "fell-of-the-truck" (i can understand with those roads) but we don't need anything & we can"t carry it, so a quick stroll later, through shops selling everything from north face bags, kalvin clien underware, tires, carburators & fake antiques we where heading back home to our guesthouse for some relax'in. And how did we relax! Reading a book, sipping from some juice & beer (affordable!! one's more in comparison to malaysia, damn those muslims) laying flat down on a matress with our feet in a pool...cambodia rural...not yet.
Lucky bastards!!! Morgen moet ik terug beginnen werken en het zal pikken :-s.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenMaar het is jullie gegunt hoor!
Geniet er nog van.
Kus Fem
amaai voor het eerst ziet het er uit alsof we niet gaan moeten afkicken!
BeantwoordenVerwijderendrank and relax, now we can not wait anymore
kus
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