MMMC - The Blog

2006-02-16

And so we're back at our Asian headquarters

Bangkok...
After a nanosecond of consideration and the memory of the Siem Reap bus still burned into our memories, we decided to take the easy way out, so we bought planetickets. A little more expensive but I promise you, well worth the cost. I mean, the Siem Reap bus you definetly want to experience at some point in your life, but I personally recommend that you keep it in the "once in your lifetime" file. The flight took us about one hour. Compare with the bus which took 16 hours. We arrived an Phnom Penh and everything is the way we left it. Hot, humid, blazing sun and a distinct smell of sewage. We were greeted by Mickes family and we had lunch. What luxiouries. Food, drinks, a bed for myself, hot water... Quite a contrast to the conditions we have been living in (I tell a lie, We had food and drinks). And just as easily as we arrived, our personality changed from fast paced to lazy bums watching Battlestar Galactica on TV, eating salted peanuts and having no energy to move. But what the hell. I kind of needed one day of total brainless activities. And we're only staying 5 days more and then its back to Sweden. After that it's going to be 2 months of rather hectic Central American travel but that lies in the future.
Time to do something now instead. Or when I think about it, maybe tomorrow... Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. This day is going to waste anyway so there's no point in trying to salvage anything. I'm just going to ride it out.
Can't help of thinkin about Koh Tao. The diving, the feeling, the place, everything... Would be fun to do a Divemaster there but thats in the far future, and Koh Tao is just a memory.
But all well. Let's see what we can do in Phnom Penh.
To be continued.