Back in Siem Reap town... the rathole hotel in Phnom Penh further endeared itself with the boomboom sounds of a next door nightclub last night, needless to say we were happy to see the back of it... the bus ride today was also something of a trial, thanks to fat Indians and their fat loud children, not to mention the Italians who insisted on reclining their seats so far back that the guy probably has a permanent imprint of my knee in his back, more so because I felt the need to give him a good nudge in the spine with every decent bump in the road... but these things are par for the course and six hours on a bad bus is better than... well... seven hours on a bad bus. Travel tip number 964 - it is usually worth spending a few dollars more... Mekong Express was actually pretty good from Saigon to Phnom Penh, but today, not so much.
The guesthouse (Babel) I stayed in here four years ago is the diametric opposite of our Phnom Penh accomodation and is still friendly, clean, comfy and well sorted, for only $2 more a night... totally happy to be back here, and a stroll around Siem Reap town tonight confirms it is even better than before... if 'better' means more bars, restaurants, tourist shops, etc etc... but sometimes a place with all the comforts of home is exactly what you need. Siam Reap is ground zero for tourism in Cambodia and lightyears ahead of the capital city. Dinner tonight was Cambodian BBQ (cook-it-yourself kind of stonegrill styles but on a charcoal-heated hotplate) and Lala got her first tastes of crocodile and snake... much as I remembered, crocodile is very nice if done right, snake is not really much to write home about.
We shall be taking things slow from here I think, a few days of R&R with Eve arriving to join us tomorrow, and a slow (for a change) look around the local sights, chiefly of course being Ankhor Watt (spelling? too jaded to care) and the amazing temple/palace complexes.
The rain has set in and I think it is time to leave our comfy guesthouse garden bar and go and recharge.
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It ain't the same without you - comeback brother wolf, have a shave and forget those filthy foreign ways.
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