Cambodia – Day 1
Welcome to our second stop on our travels across Asia. We headed to Cambodia! As I mentioned before we originally planned to visit Bangkok, but there was lots of political protests going on, so we switched our destination. I had no idea what we would find in Cambodia, I did some brief researching when we decided to change our destination 1 week before leaving. In pictures it looked very pretty with its ancient temples and sprawling untouched lands. That was enough to book our new flights!
Day 1
Flying into the Phnom Penh Airport and looking down at the landscape everything just looked brown, then we started seeing more buildings, and closer to the airport it looked like a normal built up city.
On our cab ride to our hotel we noticed that everyone here drives a motorbike. It’s unlike anything you would ever see in the States, they will fit as many people as possible on one bike. Some bikes had about 5 people on them, a few even had mothers carrying babies on the bikes. Our second observation was that there are close to no traffic rules. Everyone just kinda drives wherever, either side of the road, on the side walks, doesn’t matter. This makes crossing the road quite stressful.
We choose our hotel online and when choose a hotel online from just reading reviews you’re always a little scared of what you will find when you actually get there. We were pleasantly surprised! From the outside you would never guess what you were about to walk into. It felt like we were at a tropical resort and you almost forgot you were in the middle of such rural city. The best part was that it only cost $50 a night.
After the palace we went back to the hotel to rest and shower before heading out to our first nights adventure of seeing a play back at the Museum. The play was put on by the Cambodian Living Arts association. It was all students and they did a great job! It was all in Cambodian so we didn’t understand any of what they were saying, but luckily they had the English translation on a screen above the stage. The costumes and the play were really good!
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