On the bus to Pnom Penh

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  Pnom Penh (on the way to), Cambodia
Sunday, July 29, 2007

8:15am
I'm about to have some scrambled eggs with bread and a pineapple juice for breakfast.  The bus to Cambodia leaves in about 15 minutes, or so they say (actually it left at 9am). 

I have my last Xe Om ride in Vietnam (for now).  It was as crazy as usual and, of course, loads of fun.  It's still really cool to see whole families piled onto one motorbike, like mom and dad with a couple of children.  It's a bit hair-rising to see these young kids just sitting (or standing sometimes) on their parents' laps as they dart through traffic.

11:35am
I just crossed the border into Cambodia. Yay! Number 7.  The border crossing was a piece of cake.  I just gave one of the bus guys my passport and 24 bucks, and we just walked through the Vietnam emigration.  Then, the Cambodian guy called out our names as we walked by, and that was that. 

Since Vietnam outlaws casinos, the fist thing I saw were a dozen or so of them on the Cambodian side.

2:20pm
The ride in Cambodia has been a blast.  The roads were actually quite good until we reached (what I think was) the Mekong River.  After that, we've been alternating between bumpy paved roads and hole-ridden dirt roads.

It's still been a blast and I've been trying to capture some of the amazing countryside and people we're passing by.  I could immediately notice, once on the Cambodian side, how much more rustic everything seemed; even the vegetation seems more abundant, out of control, and jungle-like.

Crossing the Mekong was really fun as well, with the bus slowly boarding the ferry, and then floating us across.  I can't help but notice the beauty and rustic-quality (so far) in the Cambodian people.  We keep driving along small, isolated, poor towns with very interesting daily life activity going on in them.  There's also this beautiful little Cambodian girl on the bus with a hear-melting smile.

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02 Yay, Cambodia	03 Person at Bridge	04 People on the back of Public Transportation	05 Pnom Penh Architecture
06 Pnom Penh Central Market	07 Riding a "Tuk Tuk"	08 Statues outside a government building	09 Same place, different statue
10 Walking down the streets..	11 Hello there...

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