Goodbye Cambodia (for now!) - Joom reap lear!



Me getting blessed by a Buddhist Nun at Angkor Wat (then donating)

 Well folks - it is here - the end of the Montessori adventure and the utterly stinking hot PP weather!  However, somewhere in that month I grew attached to the place and would like to return someday. So back from Siem Reap for 2 days and a dinner out with all the volunteers was fun on my last night. Then back to Kep for a few days staying in a glorious little lodge - a relative of the Kimly restaurant runs it and serves the same menu (the crab wasn't quite as good though). Stayed in the lovely bungalow for the first night and moved to the cheaper and still lovely guesthouse for the second. The owner loaned me her pushie so I rode down to the crab market and had kampot pepper crab again and the requisite black panther - delish!  Also had a meal at another over the water shack - the sailing club - attached to an upmarket resort but utterly delightful and on the way back home up the dirt track an old man (security!) shone his spottie for me and we dot into a conversation about what a sad life I have - having no son and no husband just about made his eyes pop out of his head! Anyway, won't forget that little man quickly - so funny! 


 Okay so took off to (what later turned out to be a bit of shithole) Kampot - was booked on a tour to see the pepper plantation, Rabbit Island and some other stuff - but cancelled due to weather -  so I biked around the town (took 3 minutes) then settled in for some DVD watching at the guesthouse.


 Back to PP and the lovely guesthouse owner at Kampot helped me organise all this - got the bus straight to Saigon - so bussed it for around 11 hours on Wednesday!  There was a bit of crapping around at the border and I'm quite sure Osama Bin Laden could (in his day) have walked through as their processes weren't what I would call thorough.  Anyway here are some pics - will jib on about Saigon (I love it and didn't think I would!) later!  Joom reap lear!




Lovely traditional band (all mine survivors) on way to Ta Prohm






My farewell dinner with the other fab volunteers: L to R: Adrien, Matt, me, Mary, Mary's friend Alin, Liddy, Stacey