We’ve had such a blast in Cambodia over the past two weeks. I can’t believe it’s only been that long, we feel like we’ve been here for ages and so much has happened!
After the wedding I (Anna) spent the Monday teaching Kate’s lovely class with Sarah. The kids were on their last week of school for their school year so we’d been warned they’d be pretty tired and over it. But they were all so wonderful and we had heaps of fun. It was a great experience to spend the day with a bunch of kids from all over the world. It was also such a different and awesome experience for me being at a school where God is central to their lives. We started the day singing worship songs and then the kids who were leaving the school were prayed for by their friends and teachers. It totally blew me away to listen to three little kids from Kate’s class praying such simple and honest prayers from the heart for their friend who was leaving.
We had our last group dinner that night all together as Nina and Emma were heading back home. It was so great to spend the first week of our adventures with close friends to share them with! On Tuesday we headed off to Siem Reap for a few days.
Siem Reap was a place we really enjoyed. We arrived after a 5 and a half bus trip and were greeted by huge downpour. We have certainly never seen rain like it before. Our tuk tuk driver (arranged by our hotel) very quickly loaded us up and we were off to our Guest House. On the way the streets started flooding and the poor tuk tuk driver broke down because of the water flooding the engine. He finally got it going again and we got to our Guest House pretty dry (considering the amount of rain).
The Guest House was lovely – swimming pool, restaurant and bar.
We stayed in Siem Reap for 3 nights and had a lovely time. Pete found a gym to go to but most of the equipment was broken, but he got to use a skipping rope and bench press.
One of the highlights was the night market. We could not walk more than 3 steps without someone asking for us to but their stuff or to eat at their restaurant. We just had to politely say ‘no thanks’ and keep on walking (another 2 steps before being asked again).
Another highlight was Anna and Sarah going to ‘Dr Fish’. ‘Dr Fish’ are everywhere in Siem Reap and are large tanks of small to medium sized fish that eat the dead skin off your feet. So, Anna and Sarah dipped their feet in and lasted all of 25-30 seconds before saying ‘That’s it, we’ve had enough’. We will put some photo’s on of them doing it.
We also spent half a day looking at the temples. They were amazing! Our favourite was the jungle temple called ‘Ta Promh’. We all loved seeing the elephants and monkeys (the animals have been one of the many highlights on our trip).
So that was Siem Reap, very cool (other than our 7 hour bus trip on the way back).
Our last few days in Cambodia were spent at Kep, a lovely seaside holiday destination for Khmer and expats, with very few tourists. We spent 3 blissful relaxing days with Kate and Retdy there in a paradise location called Raingsey Lodge Bungalows. One of the days there we took a boat trip across to Rabbit Island which was just like the tropical paradise I’d dreamt of! Ahh, to be on holiday… (sorry for all you still working hard!)
The boat trip back was pretty rocky and poor Retdy is now determined to never set foot on a boat again in his life!
On Tuesday 15th we said farewell to the crazy beautiful Cambodia and headed off on yet another bus (they can be interesting!) to Vietnam. We can’t wait to come back to Cambodia again in the future, it is an amazing place.
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