I'm in Cambodia!

Cam.bodia is definitly a change from China! First off, the Viet.nam thing never happened. Instead, we came to Si.em Re.ap early. I'm glad we did. The temples of An.kgor W.at are absolutly amazing. Basically, it's a city of temples. The main ones were 12th century or something like that. We have been here for 3 days and seen the most amazing temples! You would not believe them. Some are massively tall, others are surrounded by moats, and still others are hidden back in the woods, seldom visited by tourists. one of the crazy busy ones that was completely packed was the one that to.mb Raid.er was filmed at. We went buy, but couldn't stand the crowds. The only bad thing about the temples are the people trying to sell you stuff. They don't take no for an answer and there are so many of them. "You buy t-shirt? Buy from me, ok? I give good price!" Substitue t-shirt for bracelet, book, cold drink, scarf, wooden carving of temples, post cards, etc and that is what you hear all day! The worst are the little children that try to guilt you. "if i dont' make money, i no go to school..." it just makes you want to cry because they are just so cute, but you still say no! oh I'm not heartless or anything. i have give the little ones 100 of their money(which is a few cents of ours) and some food, but it's a total lie. Our driver told us that school is free here. They just don't go! We went to a school today with the guy from the hotel. he volunteers there in the daytime. i have pictures. Tomorrow we go to our driver's father's village outside of town. No tourist ever go there, so it should be interesting. he said "i'll show you how people really live in cambodia." it should be interesting. plus there are a few temples we will hit on the way.

They Guesthouse is very nice. It's definitly not the 3 story, 5 bedroom condo we stayed at in China, but you can't have friends everywhere, right? The front is a little bar/resturant with a pretty garden. The rooms are small, but confortable, even with the bathroom being a closet! But hey, what can you complain about for $8 a night? When we first arrived, we met this guy who workes there. He is from england and just here for a little bit. He suggested we have a drink at this place called the Ware.house. Well, we do and we meet some of the staff, in cluding the manager, this scotish woman. Well, they have been so great and have looked out for us the whole time. We have met all of these english people and they keep trying to get us to go out drinking with them. my friend goes, but i've just been going to bed early. How else do i have the energy to fight off the little children at the temples. LOL!