After a few days in Cambodia I've started to settle in. The people (most of them) are really friendly and you feel safe walking around. It could be quite different given the lack of police enforcement and volume of guns, rifles and grenades that are spread throughout the country. There's billboards asking Cambodians to hand in their weapons, saying: "We don't need them anymore".
Today, Jonus and I visited the Siam Reap markets, bought a couple of touristy t-shirts and ate with the locals. The chicken had more anatomy attached than I'm used to and the fish soup was very fishy.
It's funny, you see signs of the french occupancy in their food more than the architecture or anything else. Most of the street vendors will sell baguettes and you can pick up snail and frogs legs too. I'm still plucking up my courage to go for the snails, not so keen on the frog.
Before setting off that morning we had baguettes with small scoops of ice-cream, sweetened condensed milk and nuts scooped into the middle. It was so nice! I've been looking for them since but have had no luck.
We took a 3/4 hour drive to a resort to use their swimming pool as it was SO hot. We got there and the water was green... gutted, wasted $4 on the tuk-tuk ride.
Later we met up with Meredith and Tim for a meal and many drinks. Had the funniest kid that came up to us selling postcards... he told us that the population of New Zealand was 4 million minus us 4, the capital is Wellington and our Prime Minister is Helen Clarke who's "not so pretty"... we were sold.
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