Cambodia

Yesterday was a deep culture day, today was not. We got moving late and took a tuk-tuk to the big Aeon Mall. I needed to get some pants (failed) and wanted to do some last minute Christmas shopping for Millie. Every year of her life so far I have had a December 23rd panic that…

I booked a cheaper hotel here in Phnom Penh that doesn’t serve any breakfast, so we went across the street and ate there. It was delicious but when we got the bill it cost as much as the hotel room itself. There may not be such a thing as a free lunch, but apparently there…

We organized a ride to Phnom Penh via GetYourGuide, and the driver arrived to our hotel at 10am. It was 5.5 hours which is a bit of a haul, but when we thought about the rigamarole of getting to and through and airport with Millie, 5 hours being driven in a nice van didn’t seem…

We used the same driver as yesterday and he picked us up bright and early at 7:30. This was so we could make the 2 hour drive north to Koh Ker. Koh Ker is a series of temples built in the 10th century, and was the former capital of the Khmer empire. In short: more…

As you can see by the title of the post, today was a packed day with many stops. We coordinated a driver for the day via our hotel receptionist / Nick’s new friend, Chang. We met our driver at 9AM and left for our first stop, Kbal Spean. The drive was just over an hour…

We woke up this morning feeling wiped out from yesterday. We did a lot of walking, but not more than other high-step days we’ve had on this trip, so I’m not sure what tired us out so much. Whatever it was, we cancelled our plans to see more temples today and just took it easy.…

After our breakfast and showers, we chatted with the hotel front desk to organize a tuk tuk for the day to take us to see the temples at and around Angkor Wat. As we were waiting for it to arrive, Nick and the hotel employee got into an interesting conversation about the Thailand-Cambodia conflict. We…

After such a late night last night, we decided today should be a relaxing day. As Millie had named them, a hangout day. She slept in, hallelujah, until 9 and then we had breakfast downstairs at our hotel. We shared the buffet with 7 Australian boys, I assume on a gap year. One had road…

Standard transit day today. We packed up our Airbnb, which was somehow next-level messy. At home we are very clean and tidy people but on this trip we are heathens. I’m not sure what happened. We checked out at Noon and left our bags in baggage storage. We walked a few blocks to the nearby…