It’s time to move on from Phnom Penh – we’ve seen what we’ve wanted to see and all the heat & grime is starting to make the city feel a bit constricted – so we catch an early bus to Siem Reap and arrive mid-afternoon.
On our tuk tuk ride to our hotel, I can’t get over how much the city has grown since 2005! It’s obvious Siem Reap is benefiting from its close proximity to the World UNESCO Heritage Site of Angkor.
After we get ourselves settled in our new “home”, Eric and I wander off to find some lunch. Whenever we’re about to sit on a bus for a long period of time, we tend to try and eat very little beforehand. You never know what kind of toilets you might or might not encounter, so it’s better to take extra precautions. As a result, we’re now famished and to our delight, it doesn’t take us long to find an authentic Khmer restaurant in the thick of the tourist restaurant / bar / café / hotel hub.
Our lunch consists of banana blossom salad, sour fish soup with vegetables and a dish of minced pork and roasted eggplant. The lunch is delicious – we will definitely be back for another meal!
We stroll around the town for a little bit and on our way back to the guesthouse we discover that booze in Cambodia is REALLY affordable…
And we’re not talking crappy, bathtub moonshine – we’re talking good French & Australian wines!
So we pick up a bottle and head back home for “cocktail hour”.
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