What came next for this trip was Singapore.
But not before Lara and I had a few hours to ourselves around Siem Reap again. We went for a body massage just after checkout. Khmer massage is fun for a guy (the girl's one seems completely different) because the massage girl is much smaller and gets herself in all sorts of positions to yank and squeeze and thump on your body. I was privelaged to a short lesson in Khmer from my bubbly friendly body rubber, mostly words like "pale skin" and "chest hair".
After our final lunch at Shadow of Angkor we ducked over to the supermaket for some snacks with the last of our USD. Unfortunately I spend the very last of my USD when I was supposed to save $1 for the tuk-tuk to the airport. You can picture the lively scene at the Union Commercial Bank when a big dumb foreigner wanders in and asks to withdraw $1 from his Visa card. Luckily they don't charge fees there.
So off to the airport and up and away to Singapore. On the plane we met a friendly young American girl who gave us some great tips for what to do in 24hrs in this city, which was most helpful.
In some ways I still haven't left Cambodia. It's still "Arkun" for "thankyou" and Lara and I are struggling with the "water from the tap can be clean enough to drink" concept. But Singapore is very impressive at night and a day of retail therapy tomorrow sould snap us back into 1st world mode, for better or for worse.
Room 919, Fort Canning Lodge
Singapore
But not before Lara and I had a few hours to ourselves around Siem Reap again. We went for a body massage just after checkout. Khmer massage is fun for a guy (the girl's one seems completely different) because the massage girl is much smaller and gets herself in all sorts of positions to yank and squeeze and thump on your body. I was privelaged to a short lesson in Khmer from my bubbly friendly body rubber, mostly words like "pale skin" and "chest hair".
After our final lunch at Shadow of Angkor we ducked over to the supermaket for some snacks with the last of our USD. Unfortunately I spend the very last of my USD when I was supposed to save $1 for the tuk-tuk to the airport. You can picture the lively scene at the Union Commercial Bank when a big dumb foreigner wanders in and asks to withdraw $1 from his Visa card. Luckily they don't charge fees there.
So off to the airport and up and away to Singapore. On the plane we met a friendly young American girl who gave us some great tips for what to do in 24hrs in this city, which was most helpful.
In some ways I still haven't left Cambodia. It's still "Arkun" for "thankyou" and Lara and I are struggling with the "water from the tap can be clean enough to drink" concept. But Singapore is very impressive at night and a day of retail therapy tomorrow sould snap us back into 1st world mode, for better or for worse.
Room 919, Fort Canning Lodge
Singapore
posted by Tim at 11:40 pm
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