An uneventful trip here - unless you count the fact that I looked out of the plane and realized that the little-cultivated and strangely pocked swaths of countryside between the rice paddies were pocked with bomb craters. I assume that these areas are either too scarred, or more likely too mined, for cultivation - Cambodia has perhaps the worst landmine problem iin the world.
Being so poor, Cambodia is cheap, but significantly less so than we expected. So, mindful of a tight trip budget and our total inability to say "no" to good food, we had set up a Siem Reap reservation on the friendly-but-ultra-cheap end of the spectrum. "Prince Mekong Guest House" duly picked us up at the airport - four people, four bags and four day packs, plus driver, in a tuk-tuk, which is essentially a cart on the back of a moped. (No big deal: on the road to Agra we saw eight, then ten, and finally THIRTEEN people in/on one of these. The record so far for one moped without cart is five riders, or one rider with a big pile of sugar cane and three quite large dead pigs.) Prince Mekong was indeed friendly, but VERY basic and not in a great location. Kerry slave-drove us on a walk around town and we quickly realized that for only a very little more we could do better. Hence one night at the Mekong, and today we have moved to the much nicer Tanei Guest House, which, oh miracle, has a/c and a small POOL!!!
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