Ticktock cockadoodledoo woofwoof (Say out loud and repeat 100 times) that is what i woke to this morning. at 5am. By default, i ended up back in Thailand this morning, then came back to Cambodia. Due to being ripped off yesterday, i needed some cash. There is a bank but no atm here, so off i went, the 15 ks to cross the thai border again to run over to the ATM to get some money (it's literally just after you step into the thai side of things). GOt back and headed to the market. Of course, except for the odd expat on a visa run, or thais wishing to gamble (casinos are illegal in Thailand, and there is a huge one just across the border on Camb Side), there are not too many tourists here, so at the markets, they stared, not sure what to do with me? The Kids Knew exactly what to do and say tho, "Hello, What is you name... You have some money?" or "Hello, you have Baht?" Sweetly, my response was NO. One little girl i did encounter tho was a sweet little thing of all of 4 or so years old and she stuck out her hand to shake mine and said, hello..... SWEET.......

Went to see some amazing waterfalls today! Bout 30 k out of town. As i was being driven on the back of the moto, i was thinking about how beautiful this place is and the lush green plains surrounding me and the beautiful Cardemon mountains in the background. It got me wondering what this place will be like in 2051, the year my bus ticket from Bangkok to Trat was marked (they didnt seem to mind). And if memories of The Khmer Rouge would still live on............ or if the freshness of genocide will be a faint memory as something that happened to this nation so many years ago? I wonder about the 3 year olds of today....

KOh Kong is really the Wild West of the South! IT's a place where people live off the land, the air is fresh and pigs, cows and kids (and roosters it seems) co exist and life is HAPPY. They live off the land and the green lush grass and smell of fresh rain peek thru the smell of rubbish and rubble.

SO this is my final words from here in the wild west, as i embark on a journey to the southern beaches, to Cambodia's version of Costa Del Cambodia!!! No doubt, Sihanoukville will be filled with Euopeans on their summer breaks, sunbaking till they are red and Peeling, basking in the heat and humidity of it all. We'll see.

I am lucky to get internet access here, but putting photos on is pushing the friendship, so i will do that when i get to sihonoukville Tomorrow... Which, incidedntly, some say is 3 hours in a bus and others say is 5???