Good flight to Cambodia, the easiest access to an airport I have ever had.
Going through customs I met an older lady drinking her water that she had forgotten, I was consigned to the same place ,and a few minutes later more joined us. We all got chatting of course there was a twenty something girl travelling alone to Burma , the same place as the older,swiss lady also travelling alone. We all had a lot in common and conversation flowed filling up the time before the respective flights all while drinking the water!
The Airbus 320-200 appeared fairly new, a vast improvement on the previous one.
The hours trip to Siem reap uneventful. the visa/ customs hall was interesting, there were two officers taking passports, forms and US 20 for the visa fee, plus a dollar if you had no photo. the passport was then passed along through 8 individual officers before reaching the women who called your name for the finished product.
My passport now sports a very nice visa along with all the others.
I was met by a rep from the hotel in a TukTuk for the ride to the Golden Takeo.Awesome ride and an exciting one, very reminiscent of other Asian countries. bikes, Tuk tuks, mixed in with the normal tankers, buses and cars.
He took me to the ATM and supermarket to get a few things. I was staggered to find out the currency of choice is the Almighty US dollar, with small change given in Cambodian real.
the guesthouse was through town and down dusty metal road, roaming dogs, roosters not cats as yet!!! The roads are appalling being metal with half filled potholes that all the tuktuks swerve to avoid. Clean and tidy little guest house catering for 10 rooms .
That evening I took myself to a buffet and cambodian dancing a very reasonable $12 for the evening plus drinks. The wide range of food was a pleasure to try and contemplate over. The owner of the guesthouse provided a tuk tuk ride both ways which was very reassuring as I don’t like being out after dark in strange cities.
