Just got into Cambodia not too long ago - taking it very eaaaasy tonight and have yet to venture out into the city, other than for some contact fluid. Just a Visa run...here just until Sunday, hoping to see the temples of Angkor Wat before running back into Thailand.
You know you are in a completely different world - from Thailand even - when you get a motoride (taxi on a scooter) and pay $1 each way...and the guys here laugh at me saying I paid too much. Really? Fellow travellers, forget about not getting "ripped off", shut up and pay the $1. They know that you have money and its an insult bargaining them down by dimes. Seriously. It costs .75 cents for a beer. Don't drop a couple thousand to fly out here from your home country, $15 on airport food waiting for the connecting flight, and then get here to argue about a freaking dollar. Its embarrassing.
Commentary done. On the other hand, the motorcycle ride did give me an interesting injury to add to the list of ever growing ailments gained in Thailand. Whereas in Europe, most of my pains were in the forms of blisters, here its more physical in nature...
Rashes: A week of wading through standing, dirty Songkran water has done a number on my feet, which are now a nice cherry red color right up to my ankles. Not supposed to be that color. Or bumpy. Or itchy.
Bruises: A week of walking on slick surfaces have given me a bruise the size of an apple on my left knee (though upon hindsight, it probably wasn't a good idea to start doing baseball slides in standing water...) and my right knee is cut up pretty good from a fall I took walking out of a building. I was ok though and to the onlookers surprise, I got up on one-knee, spread my arms, and said, "TADA!!!"
Eyes: All the pharmacies were closed for Songkran, which because I didn't want to throw away my second to last set of contact lenses, I had to store in the most obvious place for 3 days...my eyes. Add in water and powder, and you have a nice little perma-red action going on.
Burns: Getting on the motos are pretty easy to do. But you have to watch the ones with the chrome exhausts. They leave a NICE burn on the back of your leg if you make contact. And the feeling is not at all pleasant.
Notice though, no back hurts this time around. One good thing about being so close to massage parlours!
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