Siem Reap!

So after my lovely time at the Orphanage i wanted some temple life so i headed up to siem Reap as I heard and seen so much of Angkor wat i just had to check it out,!~ i t was a mission getting from Takaka to siem reap firstly it took ages to leave i dont know what they were doing i ws in a time limit and tehy were fluffing around saying they needed one other in the car when i got impatient and threatened to leave for another car suddenly if by magic everyone got in the car and off to phenom penn we went. It was horrible there was tooting by the driver the WHOLE way!There are no road rules in Cambodia you just toot so that motos and people on cycles know that you are behind you and hope for the best. The whole time there was horrible khmer music and some sort of auction of the radio i wanted to throew myself out of the car. After a fast drive to the phenom penn and lost of arguing about drop off as they were told by a man back in Takaka who spoke khmer and english howevr he suddenly forgot where to drop me off and proceeded to drop me off at the clostest point that suited him. I had a bus i had to catch otherwise i would have to spend the night in phenom penn and would stuff up my travel plans as i was running short of time in cambodia as my flight was on the 9th of December from Bangkok- to the USA. Finally i got dropped off at the busstop by a kind man and off i went on the bus to siem reap.

The bus thouugh was awful! it was crampt they playyed Khmer Karaoke music the whole way- it was hot no air con. The rest stops sold dodgy food and stopped in disease infested areas where i got attackeed by mosquitos! had these massive red weltws all over my lega nd arms urg! i was comparing with other backpackers who had the most welts as many people on the bus seemed to be attacked also! At one of the bus stops there was alot of very skinny children bones were sticking out off the skin they were so... thin!I bought a meal for one of the children there as the child was shooed away for walking into the food market but i felt desprately sad for this child he looked sick and hadnt had a decent meal for weeks.
here was rubbish everywhere the sanitation system was mixed in with the trash and you could practically smell the malaria (yes i am taking tablets doxycycline - which make you very very tired but its not 100% effective:)Once arrived in siem reap arrived at popular guest house and yes as its namesake suggests it is popular! I was a little tired so just hanged at the hostel with other fellow travellers felt under the weather after the tiring ride from takeo.
The next day got up ear went to ankor wat temples , angkor wat is amazing it has a very calming spiritual i loved it . people started to say after a while it started to look all the same but personally i think it looked different as some of the photos ive posted on facebook. Some of the temples had amazing trees grown over them , looked voodoo like ... was like a mini maze ... lots of shafts .. like something out of a indiana jones movie.
Going out in siem Reap was awesome .. its style is New or eleans style I HAD SO MANY Magaritias and bloody mary (remmebr richard about the bloody mary meeting) eneded up having a crazy wild night remember dancing on tables to rage against the machine diidnt go to bed till 5am. great night life siem reap. Last minute dramas though- the next day i was very hungover and almost missed my flight - i got the time wrong. the the motorcycle broke down and ahh i was despratly trying to get someone to stoip. finally someone did and got a moto ride to the airport i was abxolutly exausted at this time- sweating like anything then i found out i had to pay a $25 departure tax. i had exchange dmost of my cash to bhat so i was running around trying to find a atm as none would accept my card it was crazy!i finally found one around the otherside of the building then got held up in customs as they were sucpicious of me as i was really nervous and all so they went through all my stuff. i was the last person to board and alas i just made the flight. but when i arrived in thailand i was watched and followed around as they were sucpicious of me and got held up when i arrived, then one of them asked in customs if i had the flu. it was really scary .. thai police are really relaxed or really full on no middle ground. Then i got a free ride whith airport workers to a bus station to ctach a bus to my hotel but i got scammed and had to catch fopur different buses and eneded up miles away from my hotel. i edned up throwing the dramatics and crying causxe nobody spoke english as this taxi driver gave me a ride to my hotel for free. I was so distreessed when i arrived the hotel upgraded me to an executive suite. with two different rooms, phone in the spa bath three tvs , bar everything you could need.

So my sth east asia trip came to a close i miss it already...