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Just a quick one, didn't wanna loose the chance to change the country seeing as tomorrow i'm flying back to Thailand!
My Cambodia experience is over, and along with it both the tummy bug and the group i'm travelling with. We crossed the border earl;y this morning and i now have another stamp in the passport!
It was quite amazing (and i must admit a bit of a relief) to cross the border and watch the land change from barren fields and filth to clean and organised and green again, i think my whole body relaxed immidately!
When i was in bangkok and Da was asking me if i thought thailand a rich country, he laughed at me when i said growing, how wrong i was. Vietnam is quite similar to thailand in those ways and my god it feels like eutopia in some ways!!! My time in cambodia was amazing and i wouldnt change it for the world, i never thought i'd experience poverty like that and a way of life so basic, if i'm honest i'm not sure i had a true idea in my head of how it actually would be if i did, but i am glad to be back on the main track, if not for just a little while! From all the info ive been told Laos is very similar to Cambodia but i figure ive seen the worst now (i hope????!!!!!!) and i can talke any public toilet Loas can throw at me as long as i have my anti bac and toilet roll to hand!!! I just hope my stomach agrees with me, but it did let me eat noodle soup this evening so i think its being persuaded!
From what i've seen of Siagon (the common name over here even in the city itself) its a much more chilled out city than Phnom Penh, a lot of the shops have actual shop fronts and signs and everything, infact it wasn;t untill i saw then i realised i haven't seen a "proper" shop in two weeks!!! The streets seem clean (they dont smell horrid anyway) and the restaurnats dont seem to have livestock in the kitchens (so far). So All good by me!!!!
Went to the market today and had a wander around, this evening we went for our "last meal" as a group although Vanessa and Lee (my roommate and her gay travelluing companion) flew back to Oz earlier so i felt a bit lost, while the others have gone out on the piss i joined the group that came back to the hotel . cant think why but a hangover and dehydration in 40 degree heat just dosnt appeal!!!! I do wish i had more time here though, would love to go see the tunnels used in the war and visist some of the museams on the same subject!!!
However when i get to bangkok tomorrow i'm going to the intrepi hotel for two nights before my next tour begins, it has a pool, i'm very very very excited!!!!!! I doubt i'll leave the hotel, just sleep, eat, drink fruit shakes and swim!!!! mmmmmmmmmmm
I did post some postcards from cambodia but it may be years before they arrive, by ox and cart i suspect!!!
Dad -- Yeah i know what you mean about the beauty of a place. As for the killing fields, it was hard, more than i expected given it has no effect on me really, i think that was the clever bit of the trip, we spent 2 weeks going to random off the track places and getting to know the khmer people a bit so i think by the time i got there it did feel like it had effected me in some way. But if i had to sum up cambodia and what makes it such a great country it would be because despite of the recent history. These people have been through all of that and they arnt angry, they dont want revenge and they dont be grudge people for not helping, they smile and welcome you to their country and show it off so proud of their temples and their belifs. Thats why its such an amazing a place, or it was for me anyway. I think some of the "travelling" group didnt understand it enough and just thopught of it as a non mainstream "cool" place. (yea there have been a couple of people i wanted to knock out but i was very nice to them anyway i promise!!! mainly a very loud essex girl who wears to little and then accuses the locals of trying to "change my personality" when she is told she has to cover up for places of worship and importance, i mean, surely a quick nudge is deserved!!)) The whole time every person i met over 30 i just thought, wow, how did you go through that and then stand here smiling and laughing with me, someone whos country let that arse wipe hold a seat on the UN!!!! I dont know if thats the right thing to do or not but its how i kept the toilets in perspective! ;op
Anyway, i always say these are gonna be short and end up writing loads, i just get a bit into it. and i haven't had much time to write my diary as the roads were so bumpy so this is kinda it.
I'm starting to miss you all lots but i;'m sure in 3 days i'll be too busy for any of that!!!!
A quick question though (Josie or Cathleen you may be able to help) -- my antibiotics for my tooth ran out yesterday i finished the coures they were 250mg, my tooth has started to hurt alreay, i bought some of the same over the counter in cambodia just in case but they are 500 mg. Should i start taking them again or will that make me ill. not sure what to do but dont want an absess again!!!! answers on a postcard too.... the middle of nowhere!!!!! ps -- you could buy valium over the couter too which i thought funny but refrained, i did however but VOMIDOM an anti nausea tablet some others had used just in case-- thought that was funny too!!!!
Gonna try and post more photos in Bangkok.
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