Cambodia was just fabulous. The night life was pretty low key, but enjoyable, and Angkor has 1023 temples at last count (they still find them out in the jungle...I think 7 were discovered last year)
I am back in Bangkok...at it feels kinda like home after being in places that I had never been to before. Everything is just so much easier here...every ATM takes foreign cards...there is a 7/11 on every street corner...just about everyone speaks some English...you can get the same brand of anti-perspirant that you use at home and so on.
All that aside it is still pretty exotic in a lot of ways, everything is cheap & I love travelling by Tuk Tuk. (Transport in Cambodia was pretty funny, the locals like to attach a cart to the back of a two wheeled tractor and use it for transporting goods and people...but mainly motor cycles...little 110 cc Honda Dreams with huge trailers...it was unbelievable how much they could fit on those things. There was also quite a bit of roof surfing going on...but out of necessity, rarther than as an "extreme sport".) We took a bus through the Poi Pet pass from Siem Reap to Bangkok...the road was nuts...apparently the local airlines pay the Cambodians not to maintain the road...the pot holes were enormous...I saw a small family living in one and running a small Bed & Breakfast from the pot hole next door)
I have hit Khao San today & am about booking travel & visa to Myanmar...it should take about 3 days...I probably will be unable to access the net while I am in-country, but will do my best.
PS: Marc, can you e-mail my Hotmail account with the best e-mail address to contact you?
Stay cool...D
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