Travel

Day 120

Due to my lack of a job, it seemed only fitting to use my remaining time in Asia to explore and to visit some of the most amazing sites in Asia. First stop: Cambodia.

I flew into Siem Reap today and my immediate reaction was, it’s hot. My second reaction, it’s still hot. My third reaction, I’m in freakin Cambodia! I start off my time in Siem Reap with a little visa problem, but that is easily settled and I find my driver who takes me to my hostel: Bun Kao Guesthouse. As we are driving, it starts to rain and my driver tells me that it is supposed to rain for the next week. Great, that’s just what I need. I arrive to Bun Kao guesthouse and the owner, Bun Kao and my driver lay down how my next three days will look like. I’ll be going to the temples in Siem Reap for the first two days and then head to the lake to see more of the countryside. After the briefing, I decide to take a bike out and just ride around. I know I’m going to get lost, but that’s what I’m good at and it’s important to get lost in life sometimes. As I’m riding around the city, I can’t help but just feel alive. It’s hard to put into words but I’m taken aback at just the people and the environment. Siem Reap isn’t entirely westernized yet, but it is in the process. Because it hasn’t become fully westernized yet, the people are still real. They are not “fake” westerners and they are for lack of a better word, dirty. I find the markets and see so many things, you’ll just have to see the photos to appreciate it. After becoming a gigantic mosquito bite I head to bed and get ready to wake up the next morning to see Angkor Wat.