Cambodia!
The terrain is mostly the same as in Vietnam: rice, standing water, flat, hot and humid. There are however a few differences. To start, almost all the houses are on stilts:
Like in China, there are gates everywhere, except they look like this:
Also there are a lot of temples designed like this:
Cartoony looking Nagas and Buddhas everywhere
Essentially Cambodia is full of the same style of art, over and over:
Then we have Phnom Penh. The best difference between it and Saigon are that the people actually drive like reasonable human beings (except the bus drivers). Red lights are mostly obeyed and honking is mostly kept to a minimum. There are also Tuk Tuks everywhere.
While in Phnom Penh I went to visit some khmer rouge sites such as s-21 the school turned into a prison
as well as the killing fields, where most people from s-21 were executed
From there it was a few days to Siem Reap, mostly through terrain like this:
Angkor, the home of over a thousand temples and according to wikipedia over 2 million tourists a year (and so so many of them in large tour groups).
Interesting bits included the gates of Angkor Thom
The Bayon in Angkor Thom
Neak Pean
Ta Som
Banteay Srei
And of course Angkor Wat
The weirdest thing about Cambodia so far is that dollars are often preferred over the local Riel, but no one has any coins. This makes for some weird transactions when you're mixing two separate currencies, or you pay in dollars only to receive Riel as change.
The terrain is mostly the same as in Vietnam: rice, standing water, flat, hot and humid. There are however a few differences. To start, almost all the houses are on stilts:
Like in China, there are gates everywhere, except they look like this:
Also there are a lot of temples designed like this:
Cartoony looking Nagas and Buddhas everywhere
Essentially Cambodia is full of the same style of art, over and over:
Then we have Phnom Penh. The best difference between it and Saigon are that the people actually drive like reasonable human beings (except the bus drivers). Red lights are mostly obeyed and honking is mostly kept to a minimum. There are also Tuk Tuks everywhere.
While in Phnom Penh I went to visit some khmer rouge sites such as s-21 the school turned into a prison
as well as the killing fields, where most people from s-21 were executed
From there it was a few days to Siem Reap, mostly through terrain like this:
Angkor, the home of over a thousand temples and according to wikipedia over 2 million tourists a year (and so so many of them in large tour groups).
Interesting bits included the gates of Angkor Thom
The Bayon in Angkor Thom
Neak Pean
Ta Som
Banteay Srei
And of course Angkor Wat
The weirdest thing about Cambodia so far is that dollars are often preferred over the local Riel, but no one has any coins. This makes for some weird transactions when you're mixing two separate currencies, or you pay in dollars only to receive Riel as change.
Congrats on a full year away!
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