I ended up spending my entire trip there, just too much shit to see. Mainly spent most of my time in Phnom Penh, which is the capital city, it's grimy, hot & humid as fuck and very poor. The driving is insane - about 80% motorcycles & tuk tuks (taxi like motorcycles) and 20% cars, there are really no laws everyone just does whatever they want. Spent a few days in Angkor Wat where the temples are and I actually stayed at a very nice 5 star hotel/resort which was only $40 a night and most importantly it had AC. Other places I stayed at were typically $10-$15 a night. I spent some time at the Khmer Rouge museum & mass grave sites, etc. And also spent a a day or two in the country side and lastly spent two nights the most south western part of the country (cant recall the name of the city) which was home of a beautiful beach, very much like paradise.
The people of cambodia are poor as hell, no getting around that, but so curtious and kind. They may only have a little bit of food to last them the next couple of days but they'll share it all just to make you feel welcome.
This is the vehicle that got me from Phnom Penh to Angkor Wat (about a 4 hour drive):
Street kids in Phnom Penh outside a lil place I stayed at:
Typical shit you see on the streets:
Two cops one with his AK
Pics from Phnom Penh near wear I was stayin:
Backseat view from a tuk tuk
Water buffalo
A little village we stopped off at, gave some money to the locals and popular cambodian candy to some kids:
There homes:
This was actually a nicer neighborhood
Through all the poverty there was a reoccurring theme - poor ass hut, another hut, hut, hut, hut, hut and then all of a sudden a big and rich looking temple. This is where the monks stay at. They are like the mafia there and punk local merchants and residents for money each day so that they can protect them from evil spirits. Notice there homes are far more nice than the average person:
The above pic was right next to:
Wild dogs everywhere (but harmless)
Khmer Rouge museum:
Mass grave site (there were 89 total in all in just one of many places across cambodia, this one had 166 bodies with no heads):
(Thats all teeth in the bottle)
Oceanside
Bought 10 lobsters for $3
Local girl pretending to cry cuz I wouldn't buy some bracelet she was trying to sell me ("if you don't buy, I can't go school." All of the kids mastered the art of guilt trips to sell their shit to you!)
Barracuda:
Fresh coconut everywhere:
My best friend my final two days there:
Angkor Wat temples (this place is so incredibly big it would take 3-5 days to visit all of it, I went to the main temples, the "older but smaller temples" and a few various other locations in an all day experience. I'll try not to bore you with too many pics
Batteries ran out and took hundreds of more pics on a different camera that I don't have at the moment, I'll post some more if there is anything really interesting, in particular the shots of the bugs and the market foo's be eating.
The people of cambodia are poor as hell, no getting around that, but so curtious and kind. They may only have a little bit of food to last them the next couple of days but they'll share it all just to make you feel welcome.
This is the vehicle that got me from Phnom Penh to Angkor Wat (about a 4 hour drive):
Street kids in Phnom Penh outside a lil place I stayed at:
Typical shit you see on the streets:
Two cops one with his AK
Pics from Phnom Penh near wear I was stayin:
Backseat view from a tuk tuk
Water buffalo
A little village we stopped off at, gave some money to the locals and popular cambodian candy to some kids:
There homes:
This was actually a nicer neighborhood
Through all the poverty there was a reoccurring theme - poor ass hut, another hut, hut, hut, hut, hut and then all of a sudden a big and rich looking temple. This is where the monks stay at. They are like the mafia there and punk local merchants and residents for money each day so that they can protect them from evil spirits. Notice there homes are far more nice than the average person:
The above pic was right next to:
Wild dogs everywhere (but harmless)
Khmer Rouge museum:
Mass grave site (there were 89 total in all in just one of many places across cambodia, this one had 166 bodies with no heads):
(Thats all teeth in the bottle)
Oceanside
Bought 10 lobsters for $3
Local girl pretending to cry cuz I wouldn't buy some bracelet she was trying to sell me ("if you don't buy, I can't go school." All of the kids mastered the art of guilt trips to sell their shit to you!)
Barracuda:
Fresh coconut everywhere:
My best friend my final two days there:
Angkor Wat temples (this place is so incredibly big it would take 3-5 days to visit all of it, I went to the main temples, the "older but smaller temples" and a few various other locations in an all day experience. I'll try not to bore you with too many pics
Batteries ran out and took hundreds of more pics on a different camera that I don't have at the moment, I'll post some more if there is anything really interesting, in particular the shots of the bugs and the market foo's be eating.
