Cambodia-Vietnam

OK, so here's the deal..I've totally forgotten to write in the past few days due to being wrapped up in the hecticity (I don't care that word apparently doesn't exist as my computer tells me, its a cool word) of travelling about. On the 8th I met all the people in the group and we went out for dinner in Bangkok. Next day we got a bus to the Cambodian border. The minibus was awesome. It had colourful lights and flourescent 'PMS' haha. We arrived in Siem Reap. There we went to Angkor Wat..the massive buddhist temples, amazing.

We also went to the weird tree root temple..a scene in Tomb Raider was shot there.

We then went on a boat ride through the floating village which was cool. Kids would jump aboard the boat and try and sell us drinks and stuff. One kid was saying 'one banana one dollar' er..no way maayte!

In the evening we went to a bar called Angkor what? They had a special offer on..buy 2 pitchers/buckets..and get a free t-shirt. You can tell pretty much all of us got a t-shirt judging by the number of buckets..

We played ring of fire 2 and a half times. It was fun. The night ended up us dancing on the table/benches. The highlight of the night was Shaun trying to get up and do the same, but slipping on the stool and completely faceplanting the table, resulting in a couple of the half empty pitchers smashing all over the floor. The barmen came over and swept it up in minutes. Just like it was standard procedure every night. Haha. Good night.



The next day we had another long bus journey, to Phnom Penh. Here we went to the S.21 genocide prison where Pol Pot killed about a quarter of the population of Cambodia. Very evil man. We also went to the killing fields where the graves were where the bodies were found. Still today on the ground are bits of bones and clothes sticking out of the ground..so surreal..its horrible. They put all the skulls they found in one building..there were so many..people went in to pay respect.

From Phnom Penh we then went to Sihanoukville. On the way the road was totally flooded. So we had to get off the bus and wade through knee deep water on the road with all our bags! Once on the otherside we got a motorbike to another bus. I swear I nearly fell off the back, my bag was heavy and pulling me down!
Sihanokville was wet. Marissa and I explored the beach and went to a bar for a shake. These kids came up to us and made us bracelets..'for free', then asked us to buy some. They got real pissy when we said no. 'Thats unfair' 'You come here and be a tight ass' 'buy her food, she is starving' (this girl was clearly NOT starving, she actually looked a little on the chubby side) Jeez. Rude much? One great quote from them was 'open your heart, and open your wallet.'

That night was messy. We played copious drinking games..the beer was 50c per glass, draught. They then brought us out free shots. By this point you can probably guess we weren't exactly sober..once again, we ended up dancing on the BAR. But it was ok, the barmen were joining in. They then brought us free buckets. After them I was just, gone. They then sorted us out with a massive bucket! This made me overjoyed in my state, and I proceeded to start ladeling it out to strangers, while dancing. On rare occasions I would actually get the drink into the cup..
So I accidently went home with one of the barman's hat. I returned it the next morning as I felt bad, though I couldn't remember what he looked like so it was pretty awkward! Another highlight of the evening was Mike jumping into the sea drunk, brilliant.
That morning it rained more. So the day consisted pretty much of lazing about watching 'Star movies' I needed it. I didn't feel too great.
Right now we're in Chau Doc, Vietnam. Went on a boat ride then motorcycle ride up a mountain where we chilled in hammocks with beer (90c) My driver was nuts, he kept turning off at different places to the others!
We just ate street food. It wasn't great but the banana fritter I got off a street vendor was.