Siem Reap
Well, we're in the Kingdom of Cambodia now. I swear that our pilot was some kind of topgun wanna-be. We made some crazy stand on the wing turns, which I'm pretty sure that a Airbus 320 isn't designed to do. About 5 seconds before touchdown he also accelerated the heck out of the plane and for a heart-thumping moment I thought he was trying to take off again. But no, he touched down and slammed on the brakes all that much harder.
The first impressions of the airport were "Wow, it's beautiful". And Siem Reap IS beautiful, but then we hooked up with our tour guide and (because of the lateness of our flight) we immediately headed out of the city down to Tonle Sap lake. Tonle Sap is a pretty amazing geologic feature (check out the Wikipedia article) and was truly interesting to visit- but the poverty of the boat people is astounding. Our tour guide says that very few of our tourism dollars actually goes to local Cambodians which makes it even sadder.
We're off to Angkor Wat itself in the morning. See you tomorrow; same Bat Time, same Bat Channel.
Cheers,
/Dan
The first impressions of the airport were "Wow, it's beautiful". And Siem Reap IS beautiful, but then we hooked up with our tour guide and (because of the lateness of our flight) we immediately headed out of the city down to Tonle Sap lake. Tonle Sap is a pretty amazing geologic feature (check out the Wikipedia article) and was truly interesting to visit- but the poverty of the boat people is astounding. Our tour guide says that very few of our tourism dollars actually goes to local Cambodians which makes it even sadder.
We're off to Angkor Wat itself in the morning. See you tomorrow; same Bat Time, same Bat Channel.
Cheers,
/Dan