Postcards from Cambodia

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Greetings and goodbye from Cambodia.

I had a lovely time saying goodbye to Phnom Penh on an evening cruise with sunset. It was in a pleasant company with 4 other guests and a sweet guide. There is something special about rocking quietly on the water while, the sun goes down, even if the city does not invite to beautiful pictures. It was nice to see the city from that side though, and there were some small fishing boats on the water.
I also visited the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, so I managed to see what I was supposed to see in Phnom Penh. My trip from Cambodia was by boat. 4 hours to the border, check in and out and then an hour’s sailing to Chau Doc in Vietnam. There was not much to see on the Cambodian side, a few villages, a little industry, a container port and a single small container ship that are able to sail in the dry season. There were some small fishing boats, but I can imagine that there is a lot more activity when there is more water in the river.
On the Vietnamese side, there was much more activity, among other things because of many fish farms.
Now I have to get to know another new country while I am still hoping my hip will be like a new one again, but more about that next time.

Best wishes

Greetings from Phnom Peng

After Siem Reap with Angkor Wat, I’ve been to Kampong Cham and are now in Phnom Penh. Last stop in Cambodia.
It is not going quite as planned, as I have got problems with my new hip. Unfortunately, I have to use my folded stick to get around. I do not know that something has happened, so every day I hope it disappears again, and I will be fine.
Kampong Cham, unlike Siem Reap, was a lovely city at the Mekong River. Siem Reap, on the other hand, looked like a village that had grown far too much too fast. Phnom Penh is a big city where the old Palaces and temples are well hidden from any other buildings. Unfortunately, I have pretty much only seen the city from a Tuktuk, but it is better than not to see anything at all.
I have so far reached what I had planned, I have visited the horrors of Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge “The Killing Fields” and the prison they used before the Killing fields – Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Must admit I did not see much, but both places I listened to the audio of what there was to see and stories of what happened. It was awful. In Siem Reap I was also past the Killing Fields, here the stories were on boards, and that was enough for me. I did not want to study pictures of torture in the rooms where they had taken place.
Yesterday was a different day as I visited a Wildlife Rescue Center. Here, many of the animals also come from horrible conditions, but at the center, they take good care of them and if possible they are returned to nature. If it is not possible, they can stay.
In a few days I will go to Vietnam, and then I have to see how it goes.

Hope all is well, and you can start to glimpse the spring.

New country, New language – I have come to Cambodia, specifically Siem Reap. The trip from Laos went according to plan. There was a lot of waiting time, but according to my reservation I would be in Siem Reap at 7 pm, and I was. It was reasonably smooth to check out Laos and into Cambodia, where everyone was accommodating. The tour started with a boat trip from Don Khone to the mainland, from here a van to the border. Getting from one border building to the other and on to the bus stop, which was a bar, was on foot and very hot. Another bus from the border to Stung Trang and from here we went by bus to Siem Reap. All the tours were in small mini-vans and they were very good at stowing people and luggage together. On the first trips we were12 people with luggage, but on the journey to Siem Reap, we were 16 people divided into 2 cars. In Stung Trang there was a bus stop at a restaurant, so here we could have a little to eat. On the web, you can read many stories about some bad experiences on these trips, but luckily I had chosen the right bus company.

Here in Siem Reap, besides seeing the city, I spent a couple of days at the vast complex Angkor Wat. That’s enormous. A mixture of Hindu and Buddha temples and there are many of them. Getting from one place to another was with a Tuktuk, and the first day I had a guide to take me around and tell me about the history of the site. It was a little difficult to understand his Cambodia English, and there were a lot of names to remember, but I know more now than before I came here. 😀

There were many people other than me on the spot. It sometimes felt like a department store at Christmas, where we were about to step on each other’s shoes, and I believe that’s how it is every day.

Hope everyone is good, and you do not freeze too much in the cold areas. Warm greetings from here. 🌞