So today we went from the coast till the north of the country. After a 10 hour ride we are finally in Siem Reap. Only 8km away from Angkor. There are no guesthouses in Angkor so allt he tourists stay here. As you can imagine we had a super intresting day in buses today. I think we are doing pretty well with our creativity in terms of game creation. I think we have played to sing songs, to guess mysterious characters, letter games,card games, sunscreen games.. And in addittion we have attempted to communicate in cambodian with cambodian people but that last one was definately not a success. We thought we were going to arrive in Siem Reap at around 7pm and at 5pm we see a bunch of ppl running through the street by the bus. All with signs all knocking on our windows. It was clear we had arrived. All the tucktucks wanted us to go with them. This is the thing they are very intrested in getting you to a guest house where they might get a commission...And even more they want you to hire them for the 2 or 5 day visit of Angkor. So we got down and ive never been followed by more tuck tuck drivers than this town. First step was getting our backpacks..already an oddisy. Then with didac and miquel we were trying to decide which tucktuck out of the 100 to take. They were standing 50cm from me and i couldnt hear them. Everybody was shouting prices and guesthouses names..it was nuts. I started cracking up..the situation was funny. Finally we said DIDAC is deciding...so a large majority went around him. At the end we got two tuck tucks one for Anna and Miquel and one for Didac and Me. Finally we were out of the mess.

I must admit i slept quite a bit on the bus..but the road was narrower than the privous once we had been in. Lots of traffics. The driver kept honging and we moved from right to left of the rode as we tried to avoid cars,bicycles and motorbikes. If we didnt crash it was a miracle...We took a bus from the beach to Phom penh and there we switched...the switching also invoved 100tucktuck drivers attempting to take us to a guest house in phom penh! Well so this trip is almost coming to an end. We might stop at another city or we might go directly to Bangkok...

If I was an author i would have probably used the dark clouds from the morning to get the reader ready for what was meant to happend at the end of the day.

We finally got a day today where we could wake up late. And we have a tv in our room so we can get up to date with the news and even watch National Geographic Channel. After waking up late and geting Miquel off the tv we headed to the beach...it was quite late by then. The beach was relatively empty, the sea was a bit rough. People were still swiming and im sure I could have swam too but it was quite cloudy..very cloudy actually.We sat down and it started raining so we moved into one of the multiple beach shacks. We were consantly being followed and asked to buy bracelets,skirts,massages etc etc etc...I bought one bracelet. By now my arm is officially full of breacelets. green and yellow, pink and black, white, pink,yellow black, blue and white and gree black and yellow...love string bracelets and they are so cheap here..

Well the day went on and on and I moved back to the sand as it wasnt raining. I suddenly saw a bunch of ppl congregating in a spot in the beach and less people swiming. In our area there were maybe only about 2 tourist swiming.After a while they realized something was going on and they also got off the water. I didnt know what was going on,but i could only predict that someone was misssing. Lately ive been watching a lot of Surf Petrol in aussie tv so i figured everything would be fine. In the tv show about real problems in aussie beaches ive never seen anybody die... A skijet was going around the water looking for someone....After a long long long time everybody started running to a spot. All of this quite near from where we were. Didac started to walk,miquel followed and then i did. I was with some cambodian people who also went...Luckily i didnt see any person. But someone must have been laying int he middle of the people. ppl were waving at the skijet to come back...The cambodian ppl told me that a little kid had fallen of the skijet and had been missing for a long time. The waves had brough his body to the sand....After a while they took him away...and everybody followed. It only took 5 minutes for people to jump back in the water. I had been tempted to swim as the water was quite warm...but by then it was the last thing i wanted to do....

And tommorrow we are leaving. The beach isnt really my thing. Next place..Siem Riep to visit the famous AngkorWat!

First of all...and very important key knowledge.

LONELY PLANET is a Guidebook..in my opinion one of the best!!So make sure you buy lonley planet when you travel...or routard (i dont get comission!)

hello again from the cambodian sauna ...oh man this is a sauna!!! i havent seen a toilet today and i have drunk so much...At least we have a fan in the room..actually two. This internet is painfully slow...cant even open the mail. Frustrating. So today has been a cultural day, royal palace, killing fields of khmer rouge. Also visited the prison and some other temple..After a cultural day we ended up in the russian market again. I ended up being the craziest of the four so i bough...Lonley planets

lonley planet Japan --> its huge!
lonley planet New Zeland --> massive!
lonely planet Singapore --> smaller...
lonely planet Myanmar -->small and must go there soon
lonley planet south east asia -->actually miquel bought this one
lonley planet europe --> well we are meant to share it

also bought entire season of six feet under and coupling...
and ankor beer t shirt

ohhh im forgeting..got two dvds more.
And we had a luxurious italian lunch today...wonderfull!We were in need of it....sooo delcious. In the meanwhile we rented a tucktuck for the entire day...The tuck tucks here are very glorious. Two seats are uncofortable but the other two are like couches...side and with cushions. Like in the typical french indochina that you see in movies. Fantastic!
And tommorrow we are heading to the beach!! Thats all folks!

indeed i would have loved to buy more lonley planets. specially france, but they only had italy!

ulalala Hello from Cambodia! So since my last blog a lot has happened, we have gone through paradise thorugh a never ending road trip to cross the border, met many more idiots and ended up in exhausted and in bed by 8pm. We are currently in phom penh the capital of cambodia and have spend the afternoon in the russian market. Ive been forced to buy pants as they always break and i bearly had any left. Also bought the entire seasons of sex in the city for 12 dollars and a bunch more of cds..unfortunately the market was closing and we have to rush out of here. Well well,cambodia is what i came to south east asia for, some kind of organized chaos. Motorbikes transporting things, 4 matteresses, 100 chickens. Cars and trucks and tuck tucks dont stop when they need to turn its just a matter of pasing by the cars in the opposite direction. When we got off the bus we had an invasion of ppl..tucktuck tuck tuck where you go madam, madam wait, ...this reminds me of india and mostly of vietnam. Its another world that Laos...its hard to believe laos is so close by and so different.

Anyways after leaving Pakse we heaeded to Don Det, which is in one of the 4,000 islands in laos. There we got rid of our last kips...it was like being in paradise. We were in a small islands. Paying 50 cents per night in a bungalow with not many facilities. The island only got electricity insatled in 2006 and it was very scarced. So basically it was a world of hammocks,beerlao,renting bikes,sunset boat tour and relaxing. We spend till 2am in the hammocks and then went to sleep and during the day we biked and had lunch..The lunch took again two hours to prepare we were sooo hungry that after lunch we ended up sitting in the hammocks for who knows how many hours...Beautifull day.

The next day we went to Cambodia, to Kratie..and none of us knew what was expecting us. Oh lord...we left Don Det by boat...this wooden boat. Ill post pictures of boats here cuz they are quite not the ones you would have in mind. Once we reached the otherside i had some issues to jumpof the boat but made it without falling into the mekong...Then we had to wait 1 hour for the minibus. minibus came, after 5 minutes we changed minibus. After 5 minutes we changed again. The worst of it all is taht we were travelling with some showoff asswhole german guy...very annoying. We then made it to the border. The road at the beggining was okay. And when we had 6km left we had to take an unpaved road all muddy and it took us 30 minutes to go throuigh it. Finally at the boarder we payed 2 dollars and were allowed to pass. The border was a wooden shack in the middle of the forest. With the policeman laying in hammocks and playing games...we walked a 100 meters to the cambodian side where they were also laying hammocks..Payed 2 dollars and passed in a bus which had no ac or nothing. It was an awfull bus. The worst of the worst. After 1 hour we had to take a boat. And they wanted us to pay more..so we all refused and payed. Then we had to wait 1 hour. Then we were finally taken to Kratie! Finally in kratie we left our stuff took a shower and quickly went to visit a famous stupa. We then had dinner adn we were all exhausted. I think nobody could even talk. At 8pm we went to bed and fell dead. Its just so hard to wake up late here all the time the latest we have woken up was 8. Tours and buses start sooo early!! This morning we took a bus at 7.15 to phom penh! It was a bus full of cambodians and a bout 6 tourists. But it was full of rich cambodians..And guess what we finally had AC!! Oh yeah!! After a 7 hour trip we reached the capital of cambodia had lunch and headed to the russian market to buy fake dvds etc :D

We got to be much more carefull here, so many more tourists, so many more ppl trying to jump on us. But its full of lonely planets at cheap prices. Its quite awesome!

btw did i ever mention that on our way from luang parabang to pakse we found in our bus some gusy with machine guns??It was not really nice nor cool...Here everybody speaks english its much more awesome. We are currently in the backpacker zone of phom penh...realxed,hammocks,music and backpackers...Quite awesome. Oh lord and this is a sauna, a true sauna ...i hope i survive the days i got left.

SO much more in mind i had and all if orgot sooo bye bye