Phnom Penh!
Cambodia is just full of surprises.. we booked at the White Rabbit, after many deliberations between the other good ones in the city, and within the first hour we ran into Alma! A girl from Finland who we met at the Lounge!! Hah! Right as she was telling someone about always running into people that she met from there.. she then turned around and we saw each other! It was soo great. Seriously the Lounge was some magical traveler connecter.
We meant to stay about 2 nights because we heard Phnom Penh wasn’t anything too great.. well, it’s going to start being a trend in the next few entries.. we stayed 4 or 5 hah! The first night a few of us went to Top Banana, a nice bar a close walk away. Ally was feeling sick, so he didn’t make it, but Alma (Finnish), a gal living there named Madeline (American), Tim (American), Vincent (American - part owner of the hostel), and I (American) all went there.. the most Americans I’ve been around in months!! Twas a blast.
The next day Ally and I went to the killing fields with Dave, a guy from England staying at our hostel. It was tough. Very disturbing.. I mentioned in another entry about the genocide that happened over here, and how we were never taught the history of it. The killing fields were where huge numbers of people, men, women, children, infants, were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime. This occurred incredibly recently from 1975 to 1979 at the end of the Cambodian Civil War. There are a number of different killing field sites around Cambodia. The one we went to was really well done, we paid for an audio guide tour and probably spent about 3 hours there listening, seeing, learning, and hearing all about this time and the fields. Being there felt like I was in a concentration camp again. It was absolutely horrible, but well worth going.
That night a bunch of us from the hostel, had a big night out.. which led to many new friends, pubs/bars, drinks, tuk tuk rides, and seeing the sunset in the morning! It was a blast.. The next day was a pretty lazy one full of nothing but blogging, reading and hanging out at the hostel for a lot of people.
One of the days, Dave and I went to the palace/temples in the city and hung out for the day.. he’s quite an awesome dude. Then that night, a bunch of us met up with 2 people Ally travelled with and went out to eat with them.
We also went to this market in the city one night that had bamboo mats all around, and people would buy food and just sit and hang out in the center on the mats.. it was soo great! We got ice cream! :) and watched some Cambodian live entertainment.. bet you can imagine how AWESOME that is!……………….
Then we headed off to Sihanukville.. Next stop: BEACH!!
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Oh! I forgot to mention, one night we were watching a movie and there were these nuts that were shaped like MUSTACHES!!
...that's all.
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