Cambodia Welcome! Welcome to Phnom Penh
And yes, September 2 is the Independence Day of Vietnam and is now as we leave Vietnam by boat on the Mekong Delta. Arrived the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, we settle in "Okay Guesthouse time to visit the city, its attractions and its markets ...
... In a suffocating heat we visit the Royal Palace and the Place Royal, which dates from about 1434 and the Silver Pagoda. It dates from about 1866 and how describe these great monuments to beige and gold with their magnificent gardens all around. After a good dinner at the Bodhi Tree, we find the S-21 prison, the time of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The S-21, a former high school, who served from camps for prisoners of martyrdom genocide between 1975 and 1978. It is quite disturbing as exposure. Ten members of classes in each of them with a bed in the center accompanied by torture equipment. There was also a huge photo of the same bed with a bloodied prisoner, half dead. In another wing of the school, Thousands of pictures of Cambodians look sad and appeuré are inlined on panels. These days, we read "First they killed my father." is the story of a girl who was 5 years old during the genocide and who tells us what it has lived and experienced ...
A cat shot: "We call it like that because we believe that non-pertinant people turn their cats by the tail until has what it sells ... "
Oil our bikes!
THE HOLIDAYS:)
Cage crab
Well, This now and after all these emotions, we're due for a vacation! Kep direction south of Cambodia. At the seaside, in this small village, we will stay at ghesthouse "The End Of The World", in a beautiful hut in the mountains overlooking, of course, the sunsets! "Excuse me pardon" The next day we visit the area each with a motorcycle. We go to the town of Kampot. By traversing the roads we can see the remains of genocide Pol Pot, and abandoned fields réhenvahi by poor families who occupy these stetch dilapidated houses, how sad.
Cage crab
ISLAND RABBIT
After a 20 minutes boat, we are left to "Rabbit Island", the paradise! almost no tourists, the beaches deserted. Here we spend the day, to let float in the sea! Restaurants, huts, hammocks, cats shot (cat's tail cut), sea, beer and sun until 3:00 pm ... Because at 4:00 pm, the deluge of rain and wind. I will long remember this trip boat in the rain and towering waves ... ahhhh, Dady I thought of you! But we survived:)
Details of the Rabbit Island ... From Kep we find two friends and we negotiate a taxi to Sihanoukville, a little southwest of Cambodia. Again we will take a hut on stilts with $ 15, again overlooking the sea:) On the range we see that there is prostitution, selling jewelry, children, women offer waxing legs, manicures, and massages pidicures ... Poverty is everywhere and through that tourists wanders off happily and enjoy this sad poverty. There are mostly men ...
Today it's raining. At dinner I eat a quarter of my plate at $ 3 U.S. is very expensive as a meal here in Cambodia and it's delicious but when it's 30 degrees, I feel less hungry. A child who sells newspapers about 7 years old comes to me, point by asking me my food for the rest of my food. Surprise, I give him great pleasure. He would move on the ground in the dust beside us, before I invite him to sit down at our table. The little shoves all the food as if tomorrow he would eat maybe not ... At the end of his plate, he smiled, lowering his head, closing his eyes and JOIN both hands like a prayer, I was mess with my ...
Direction Island Rung Samleom
TWO NIGHTS KOH (ISLAND) RUNG SAMLEOM ... Koh Rung Samlo is an island with beaches idil and a small fishing village with no tourists, what a paradise! This morning at sunrise, it is still the Pluit and wind ... I am a little nervous to take the boat for the island of Koh Rung Samlo is two hours by boat from Sihanouklville with temperature and this is something! Of the seven tourists, I am the only one not taking the pill for seasickness! Everyone was Assé green thank you, it brewed a lot! After two hours of navigation when everyone is conducting two dives with a visibilitée low of 2 meters. We're all pretty disappointed with our trip. After plongers, the boat moves toward the dock but can not dock there, too vague. The captain decided to return to Sihanoukville! Peter and I are disappointed, we were supposed to spend at least 2 days ... Brief return to the "Shop Dives" paid us beer and we paid half the price of the day. We finished this day strange to restore a nearby boat with the gang.
BACK TO THE BIG PHNOM PENH CITY Back in Phnom Penh we change our location, we irrons this time at the lake and from there we will buy our tickets to Siem Reap by fast boat. I spent 6 hours on the roof of the boat, the scenery was very beautiful. Peter, he has stayed inside the boat.
And yes! Of poutine in Cambodia!! We Quebecois we leave our mark everywhere!
And yes! Of poutine in Cambodia!! We Quebecois we leave our mark everywhere!
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