Phnom Penh – 11th December 2007
Decided on a bit of a change in scenery and so hopped on a bus yesterday morning to get me to the capital. It was a reasonably painless 6 hr trip to get here and after fighting through the tuk tuk drivers to get my luggage I was rather surprised to hear my name being called. Seems either the guesthouse or my driver from Siem Reap (who I ran into the night before) had called one of his mates and told him that a guy called Ben was on his way here. It’s actually a pretty common thing – lots of the tuk tuk drivers were waving signs with the names of different passengers on.
Anyways I decided to entertain this industriousness and go along with him, if for no other reason than one tuk tuk driver is as good as the next. I told him I wanted a guesthouse by the lake and he took me to a place known as the ‘No problem Guesthouse’. Rooms are shabby compared to the previous place but they are a couple bucks cheaper ($4 a night here) there’s one hell of a view from the common area, they have some pretty cheap food, and the straw that made this camel stay at the ‘No problem Guesthouse’ – a free full size pool table.
That back deck is one hell of a place to chill. As sunset was approaching a young boy in a canoe paddled up and offered me a paddle around the lake for $1. Not much to argue about with that. Once we got out there the cheeky little bastard tried get a couple more out of me, which I was going to pay anyways – he’s 10years old at the most and earning a living rowing folks around, least he should get is more than $1 for a half hours work.
Here’s a couple shots from the boat and then of the sunset from the deck:
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