Holiday In Cambodia

From Thailand we took a boat, trailer, bus, pickup truck and some more buses and then 30 hours later, eventually got to Cambodia.

We crossed the border really late, and just on the other side a woman made me the most amazing food ever. I’m not sure if I had just been on a bus for so long or was just crazy hungry, but it was amazing all the same.

On New Year’s Eve we headed into town with some friends not expecting to find too much. There turned out to be a huge street party going on and the place was packed! The street had been blocked off, with a stack of huge speakers at each end and people dancing all the way along. The Cambodians did not stop all night and by the time the countdown hit, even the police joined in the celebrations.

The next day we headed to Angkor Watt, which is this huge park with hundreds of temple ruins. We explored all day and felt like Indiana Jones and even saw some ruins that were used in the Tomb Raider movies.

It was awesome, but after many hours of walking around we got so tired that we had to go home for a nap. Luckily we found an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant later that night and made sure we ate all we could!

Most of our time was spent in the city, but this is what the Cambodian countryside looks like. Crazy wooden houses on stilts and just rice fields as far as the eye can see.

On one of our last days in the country, we travelled outside the city to learn about Cambodia’s very bloody and violent history. During the 1970s over two million Cambodians were killed by their own people when the communist party took over. It was something we didn’t know too much about beforehand, but after visiting the concentration camps and seeing the killing fields it is something I will never forget.