My week has been a crazy one.. I last really wrote an entry while I was in Nakhom Pathon. The last 2 hours before my train were a long 2 hours. I sat at the train station for a bit but there were a couple of homeless guys sleeping on the bench, a group of 6 thai guys and one random guy sweeping... so after about 15mins of sitting there, I was a little scared for the looks I was getting so i walked off to 7-11... I love the place it is always open and they have my new favourite cookies. The city was awake at 2am.. there were women with veggies, ppl cutting meat on table, fisherman with truck fulls of fish... I felt a little safer walking around the market area...until 2 thai guys started following me... it was all good I still have all my money and passport :).
The train ride was a long 8.5 hours then an hour at the border with children begging for money, men with no legs for land mines, and the border officials tryied to tell me that I needed to pay 1000baht = 26USD instead of 20USD which is the posted amount for the visa. He was mad when I refused to pay him anything extra. Next, it look 3.5 hours in taxi to get from the border town to Siem Reap but it is only maybe 150km. The road isn't paved in places... bridges were missing... traffic drives on both sides, and they love their horns. It was a long long day that didn't end when I got to Siem reap because I meet some crzy czech guys on the train and we went drinking. I had lots of yummy angkor beer then stumbled home at 2am... I beleive the others didn't get in until 8am. GUESS WHAt.... I payed 2$ a night and the bed was amazing... the best yet... so compy I slept until 2pm the next day.
Angkor Wat was amazing, I saw one sunset, one sunrise, and too many runes over 2 days so on the 4th day in siem reap i decided to jump on a bus to Sihanoukville ( on the coast of cambodia) which was 12hrs long. It was worth the 12hrs on the little bus (the roads were paved now, but the driving was still random, the bus driver pulled a u-turn because he missed the turn off). I have seen the ocean again. I went skinny dipping in the ocean last night until the cover of darkness.
It rained this afternoon.... i was very sad because I wanted to start to get rid of my farmer tan lines. no such luck.