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MON 6TH JULY BIRTHDAY IN SAIGON

LAST YEAR LANZAROTE THIS YEAR SAIGON-WHO KNOWS WHERE WE WILL THIS TIME NEXT YEAR.EARLY START TO SEE THE CU CHI TUNNELS,FAMOUS FOR THEIR PART IN THE WAR WITH AMERICA.VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE TOUR.LOTS OF BUGS AND CREEPY CRAWLIES HERE-GOT BITTEN EVEN THOUGH WE SPRAYED.AT LEAST NO-ONE SAW ANY SCORPIONS THAT WE WERE TOLD TO BE CAREFULL OF.THE TUNNELS ARE INCREDIBLY WELL DESIGNED AND CAMOUFLAGED.WE SAW SOME VERY NASTY BOOBY TRAPS THAT WERE USED AT THE TIME.NEXT IT WAS ON TO MY FAVOURITE PART OF THE TRIP-SHOOTING SOME GUNS.WE BOTH HAD A GO WITH AN AK47 AND THEN AN M60 MACHINE GUN.THE MACHINE GUN WAS AWESOME! -SO POWERFULL.
MIMI MANAGED TO MISS THE TARGET EVEN WITH THE MACHINE GUN!
IN THE AFTERNOON WE WENT TO THE SHERATON HOTEL AND DRANK COCKTAILS ON THE ROOFTOP BAR ON THE 23RD FLOOR.RIGHT UP MIMIS STREET.IT CERTAINLY BEATS THE SHOPPING.THE MEN SEEM TO BE PESTERED MORE THAN THE WOMEN,STALLHOLDERS CONSTANTLY GRABBING YOUR HAND AND WANTING YOU TO BUY FROM THEM.AFTER A WHILE IT GETS A BIT ANNOYING.
BIRTHDAY DINNER WAS A NICE MEXICAN,I HAD HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUNG TO ME IN 9 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! A GOOD NIGHT.

TUE 7

OUR GROUP TOOK A PUBLIC BUS TO PHNOM PENH TODAY,QUITE AN EXPERIENCE.
THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE JOURNEY THE BUS PLAYED VERY LOUD ANNOYING CAMBODIAN MUSIC-TORTURE! WHEN WE QUEUED TO CROSS THE MEKONG RIVER WE SAW SEVERAL CHILDREN HAVING NITS BEING PULLED OUT OF THEIR HAIR.THIS WAS RIGHT NEXT TO SOME FOOD THEY WERE SELLING.YES THE FOOD,WATERBUGS AND TARANTULAS!ONE ELDERLY WOMAN ON OUR BUS GOT OFF AND BOUGHT SOME WATERBUGS,BASICALLY VERY COCKROACH LIKE-YUK!SHE STARTED TO EAT THEM ON THE BUS-GROSS!
ARRIVED IN PHNOM PENH AND MET SOME LOCAL CHILDREN LEARNING ENGLISH.ONE THING FOR SURE CAMBODIA IS MUCH MORE FRIENDLY EHAN VIETNAM.
WE ATE A LOVELY HOME COOKED MEAL (NO WATERBUGS!) AND TRIED SOME TARANTULA RICE WINE WHICH WAS VERY GOOD.
FINISHED OFF WITH BEERS FOR 50 CENTS IN A BAR-VERY FRIENCLY PEOPLE-WE LIKE IT HERE.

WED 8TH

VISITED THE S21 GENOCIDE MUSEUM SHOWING VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF POL POTS REGIME.WE LEFT EARLY AS IT WAS VERY DISTRESSING.OUR GUIDE THEN TOOK US TO THE KILLING FIELDS-PRETTY GRIM STUFF.OUR GUIDE HAD HIS FATHER AND FOUR OF HIS BROTHERS KILLED HERE-CANT UNDERSTAND WHY HE DOES NOT CRAVE REVENGE ON THE PEOPLE WHO DID THIS(SOME ARE STILL ALIVE WHO ""WORKED"" HERE.)WE WALKED ON PATHS WHERE YOU COULD SEE HUMAN BONES STICKING OUT.THERE IS ALSO A HUGE TOWER THAT IS FULL OF HUMAN SKULLS-GRIN STUFF BUT IT DOES MAKE YOU THINK WHY NO-ONE CAME TO PUT A STOP TO THE KILLINGS-PROBABLY BECAUSE NO OIL THERE!
SPOKE TO LOTS OF REAL CAMBODIANS-ALL VERY FRIENDLY.PLAYED SOME POOL WITH A FEW LOCALS.ON THE DOWNSIDE THERE ARE LOTS OF STREET KIDS HERE AND IT WAS SICKENING TO BE OFFERED AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL-LUCKY I DIDNT KNOCK HIS TEETH OUT-SCUM.

THUR 9 SIEM REAP

PRIVATE BUS TO SIEM REAP.LONG DAY.TWO OF OUR GROUP TRIED EATING MARINATED TARANTULA-NO THANKS! UPDATED STA BLOG ONLY FOR IT TO CRASH WITHOUT SAVING IT-GRRR! ALSO LOST LAST 3 DAYS PICTURES AS HAVE A VIRUS ON OUR CAMERAS MEMORY STICK-GRRR!

FRI 10 TEMPLES

SAW THE THE TEMPLES FEATURED IN TOMB RAIDER-COOL.VERY VERY HOT HERE.BOUGHT NEW MEMORY STICK FOR CAMERA HOPEFULLY NO MORE VIRUSES.

SAT 10 ANGKOR WAT

JUST COME BACK FROM SEEING THE MAGICAL ANGKOR WAT TEMPLE-AWESOME.PICS TO FOLLOW WHEN WE REACH BANGKOK TOMORROW