Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Calling from Phnom Penh, Cambodia!

It is about 27 degrees in the shadow, the sky is blue and around us a large number of mopeds, motorbikes and so called tuk-tuk's (mopeds with a kind of a trailer for transporting people), swirls around like honey bees. It is Phnom Penh, the capitol of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Wearrived here on the 19th at lunch time and has now kind of got use to the new surroundings, so we now are trying to make some plans for the next day's and for where to spend Christmas evening and Christmas day. This might be on an excursion out in to the country side to see a nature reserve and meet some villagers, but lets see what we can arrange, one thing I know is that it is going to be very different fron a traditional european Christmas anyway.
So far Cambodia -Phnom Penh- has been enjoyable with is friendly inhabitants and good food. In many way's it reminds a lot about Hanoi in Vietnam and yet not as it is a lot smaller and not quite as busy and chaotic -it seemes. It can seem very difficult to orientate in this city, as only the major streets or Boulewards has got names, the rest of the minor streets dotted between these major streets only has got numbers, and so you are looking for Street number 282 or number 13, to try to find where something is placed, but as the City is not that big and there is kind of a system with these numbers, you kind of have an idea in which area to look, or you ask a tuk-tuk driver to take you there, as there is no organized public transportation, so either these tuk-tuk's or on the bag of a moped -which is way faster. Unfortunate I'm yet not able to upload some pictures to illustrate, but maybe I can find some internet where it will be possible.

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