Okidok, back on track and civilisation!
What has happened in the last couple of days....TOO MUCH to be able to remember everything, but I'll give it my best!
I start where I left it last time, at the internet cafe', more or less...
We went back to the hotel and got ready for meeting the others in the group. Almost ended up in the wrong crowd first, but realised pretty quick we were wrong...
So instead we found our groupleader Phalkun at a table and then we had Kim, Mike, Eirles & Lucy from Wales, Lindsay and Graeam from North Ireland, Kasia and Garry from Australia and Yunichi from Japan. Some arrived a bit later, but we realised pretty quickly that we had a good, easygoing group.

28th. Boarded a bus quite early for a looong busday to Siem Riep in Vietnam. Nothing much happened, at a stop we realised that poor Kasia and Garry that had arrived late the night before and didn't have any baht, nor water, so we helped them out and started the beginning of a great friendship! Crossed over into Cambodja without trouble. On the Cambodian side, Phalkun warned us, the road was very bumpy...Hmmm, Emma and I are still waiting, not experienced any bumps yet...I only say Africa-now THAT's bumpy roads!

29th. Angkor Wat, pretty much all day. The old temples are stunning!! They are so detailed, built with so many blocks of stone, and still with exquisit carvings! Mine and Emmas favourite was of course the "jungle" one, that's in Tombraider. With trees and roots entwined in the ruins. All the temples had been built from 7th-11th century. Angkor Wat means The holy city and was the capital at that time.

30th Sunrise at Angkor Wat,rise and shine at 4.30, not a very good one, but we saw it...had some low clouds coming is just as the sun was coming up. After breakfast we went to the Landmine Museum, which was horrific to see, all those mines and the people it affects most are the farmers and children. I got really upset, 'cos it informed that many countries have signed a mine banning thing, but USA had not signed and not Finland-stupid!
After the museum the bus was silent, and I found it hard not to cry, as i saw children running through the ricefields...All that came up in my head was how possible it was for them to get blown up still....
Since everyone was kind of off, after that we relaxed a bit by the pool in the afternoon and in the evening we went out for dinner all together to see some local dancing and have a Cambodian buffet. We had LOADS of fun and laughed all through dinner. Afterwards we even had a drink in the Hotelbar, w Kasia, Garry and Yunichi-more laughing. Think it was exactly what we needed after the mines!

1st Went on the Cambodian respons to Tuk-Tuks, much nicer here, to the old market and did some shopping. Came away with 2 beautiful scarfes for literally nothing! Came back, checked out at 3, to realise that the next flight was delayed, and our pickup was 2.5h later...So I came up with the fantastic idea to have a Thai bodymassage, $7 for an hour-not bad! It was soooo good, the girl massaged with her hands, feet, well her entire body-cool.
Evening flight to Phnom Penh, lots of beggars every where, as you walk around, breaks my heart!!

2nd, Went to the Toul Sleng genocide museum, another dark part of Cambodias past...It was from the beginning a school, that under the Khmer Rouge years was converted into a torture facility/prison. From 75-79 it had held 20 000 people. And what they did to the prisoners was awfull. They took photos of all the prisoners, and to keep them straight, they had like a nail they used to push their head forward with. They took away womens nipples with plaiers, crazy things...And most guards where young boys.... When the Khmer Rouge regim was overthrown it was 21 prisoners left, 14 dead and 7 alive. 3 is alive still today. After that we went to the killing fields, where all the prisoners from Toul Sleng had ended up. The guards/solidiers wanted to save bullets, so they killed the people with anything they could find. Small children was either bashed against a tree "the killing tree" and thrown into a shallow massgrave, or thrown into the air and killed by the bajonette the soldiers had on their riffles, of course when the mothers were watching...
Grownups got killed with shackles, hammers or even had a cut throat with a dry palmtree leaf...or anything...Heavy day!!!
Back in town we walked around in the lokal markets.

3rd Boat ride to Chau doc, Vietnam. Took 5hrs, was very nice to see life along the river. When at the hotel, around 4 we decided to take a motorcykle ride to a mountain to see sunset. So much fun, had our own driver...no traffic rules here

4th, Last day with the gang...Sad, we're really starting to get so close! 7hr busride to Saigon. After lunch Emma and I took out "Gott och Blandat" (swedish sweets) and offered everyone...some were even brave enough to try salty liqurice...Mike's, Lindsay's and Yunichi's faces were to kill for....They absolutelly HATED it, the whole bus was laughting for half an hour!
Saigon....Too crowded, traffic, pollution, not our favourite spot....But getting in to how it works pretty well-it's just to walk and not to look uncertain...Mum would not like to see this!
Had dinner with the Gang, went to a gogo bar, drank some nice drinks and said our Goodbyes, sad, but this day had to come....

5th, What shall we do now...hehe, starting to plan and prepare what to do, where to go from here...
Will soon meet Johnny, who is flying in from Bangkok to night...can't make anymore decissions without him....

Take Care!