We had a lovely few days in Siem Reap. We all felt so relaxed there, and were a bit sad to leave it, but we had planned to spend a couple of days in Phnom Penh.
So we hired a car (and driver) to take us there, which in itself was hilarious and didn't get our trip off to a good start. Long story, but it involved strapping massive baskets to our boot, stopping at the driver's home, and fried spiders.
Anyway Phnom Penh was the opposite of Siem Reap. It was not green and lush and friendly and relaxed. It was really dusty! For some reason I didn't expect that. I'm probably being very unfair to poor Phnom Penh since we were really there for only a day and a half, but we just didn't enjoy it as much.
We thought about going to the Killing Fields museum, but decided to give it a miss (it sounded like it would be a bit too traumatic) and went sightseeing around town instead. We did like the area of town near the river - a couple of great restaurants and shops.
Anyway the three of us enjoyed all the amazing things Cambodia has to offer - we had an awesome week.
How handy that today was Labour Day in Hong Kong. It was nice to have a day to unpack and get ready to go back to school tomorrow.
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