Stage 3 - Cambodia

After a 7hr boat trip and a few hour van ride we finally made it to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Surprisingly, unlike the country side, the city itself was a little more developed and westernized than we expected; a lot more cars/suvs, modern buildings. At first glance, the countryside of Cambodia is noticeably poorer than Vietnams’, however I have never seen so many Lexus’ and Land Rovers in my life, putting the social class breakup into perspective. Seems that there is a huge gap between the upper and lower classes. Moving on, we were able to find a little sanctuary within the city that catered towards tourists; hamburgers, pizza, English movies, book stores, real milk. After traveling around for awhile, however wrong it may seem, its nice to step back and get a taste of life back home. We spent the majority of the day running errands; washing clothes...actually that’s the only productive thing we did all day, aside from eating about 4 meals and watching a few movies. A few days in the city and we were ready to move north to Battombang. For being the second largest city in the country, it is tiny, population of 160,000. We walked around a bit, saw the central market, took a siesta, both finished our books. Tomorrow we are of to the Siem Reap / Temples of Angkor. Until then, hope everyone is doing well back home, miss you all.