DIARY - Sunday 6th January 2008 Siem Reap There is a T-shirt being worn around here, it says on the front Same, Same, on the reverse it says Different. The same sunset, the same temple, no matter how you view it, just the method of getting there is different. Why pay a fortune to be ferried around in a four-wheel drive when a pushbike gets the same effect. :) Today though, it has been a ride in a tuk tuk 70kms to the temple used in the film Tomb Raiders, unfortunately for me I forgot to write down what it was called before I came to the internet cafe!
Uploading pictures is beyond my capabilities at the moment and believe me I have taken plenty. With such a happy friendly people, always willing to help it is a pleasure to take photos. One 32 year old girl at the cafe yesterday told me if you were not married by the time you are 20, you are on the shelf over here, she just has plenty of money, no husband! The bikes here are nearly all-automatic Honda's, scooters in other words, but that is no problem, because visitors are not allowed to hire bikes in Siem Reap. That keeps the local bike riders in employment at least. A three-hour tuk tuk ride has cured me of wanting to sit for hours though, and tomorrow it's off down the Tonle Sap lake to Phnom Pen and the killing fields. Not really looking forward to that experience, but the recent history of Cambodia is so wrapped up with the Pol Pot regime it is a must I think. Another week in Cambodia around the Mekong Delta and then the adventure really starts to heat up when it's back into Vietnam... and motorcycling!