Sunday, April 22, 2007

















































We spend a couple of days at the beach of Mui Ne, we didn’t leave the sunloungers in our little resort-place except for a short trip to the sand dunes or the market in the next village ( or to get another mango-coconut fruitshake, of course! ). On tuesday we finally made it to Saigon/ Ho Chi Minh City, did lots of shopping and spend our evenings in the GO2 eat – bar in district one, where you can meet very obscure people. A trip to see the Ch Chi tunnels in the north of Saigon was a must, off we went with millions of other tourists to stumble over the terrain, to squeeze our big bums into one of the original entrances ( and to pretend that it was easy to get them back out ) and to creep through a little part of the tunnel network (one that had been enlarged for fat western tourists, of course- still a strange feeling ). We decided to go to Cambodia by boat, but to get there we had to go to the Mekong – delta first, we spend a whole day on different buses and boats, which was pretty exhausting. The next day we started early to see the fish farms / floating villages on the rivers of the Mekong delta, before we jumped on a boat to cross the border, while kids waved at us from the shorelines. After the day on the boat and 3 more ours on a bus we finally made it to Phnom Penh yesterday evening. We started to explore the city today, went to see the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda, the Independence Monument, the russian market and the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum, a former school which was turned into a gruel prison during the Khmer Rouge regime.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi darling,

Oh, I'm so jealous...You're in Cambodia! That's the country that made my life different!

Angkor area(Spelling?) is just awesome. Please go to the lake where lots of floating houses are. It's the thing I missed there!

Enjoy your stay there! I'd love to come back straightaway and join your trip!

Chiho