Cambodia

Cambodia is a lot cooler than I thought !!!

I mean "cool" is maybe a little stupid from me, as it still remains one of the poorest country in the world with a devastated economy after the red-khmer desaster, but what I mean is that people are very nice and welcoming and Phnom Penh has a nice architecture, some bright avenues, many parks and very good restaurants... I stayed only two days but it was a true pleasure ;)! I went to see the S21 museum: it used to be the prison where the Pol Pot regime killed all their educated co-citizens... 2 millions as a whole! Strangely enough we haven't learnt at school about this period of history of Cambodia, even if the french have many relationship with the country and even if Pol Pot was educated in Paris... pfff
Anyway, Cambodia now has 14 millions inhabitants against 5millions in 1976 ;) but the country is still uncreadibly poor. It looks really strange from the flight, as the country is almost empty> no road, no industry and a very archaic agriculture.

From Phnom Penh we then went to Siem Reap, which basically exists just as a dormitory for Angkor tourists, but is also rather pleasant! I highly recommand the cambodian driving license, it is very easy .... when you want to go ahead a motorbike for instance and you see a bus coming on the other way, you just go and blow a horn (+my personal touch "make a prier", but it looks like the cambodian are always optimistic and don't need the last one :))

As always the organisation of my trip was a catastrophy and hopefully were Ludo and Marine there to plan everything! I have to change something about it... I left Bangkok without having checked a guide about Angkor or Phnom Penh, without having read anything about Cambodia and without even being sure that I didn't need a visa to get in... everything turned out to be fine, I am freaking lucky but it won't last forever, I must change!
So i got the visa at the airport for US$20 and one foto... of course I had no foto, but of course the guy let you go for only 20BTH in his pocket (less than the price of taking the foto) lol It is awfull because there is no incentive for me to be organised here, as I know that I will always get through everything for the same price as if I had be carefull... pffff

Angkor was very nice and I would love to be able to show you some great pictures but of course as soon as Frankou (and his camera+talent;)) are not there anymore, then I am unable to do something correct :(