I just came back from Cambodia.
I went on the tour in chinese, hence the title.
It was quite good.
On the first day we went to Phnom Penh to the yellow temples.
And the places preserved for people to remember the crimes against humanity during the Khmer Rouge regime.
So sad. So so sad.
At the yellow temples, there was this girl with this rattan round basket balanced on her head.
Then one of the tour people gave her some singapore money and she placed it up against the sun to check whether it was fake.
She was smiling all the while.
So heart warming.
The other people there selling goods and begging were sad.
And it was saddening too.
On the second day we travelled to Siem Reap and on the way we sat on a boat ride at the Tonle Sap lake.
On the third day we went to Angkor.
The first temple was only one tall storey and covered a vast area.
It was reconstructed with the help of India.
The second temple was really really tall and really dangerous because the steps are very steep and are only 2 inches deep.
But I made it to the top.
The third thing was a number of buildings or structures with a lot of carvings.
Then we went to Angkor Wat.
It was really beautiful especially because of the water.
The top part was under construction to make it easier to climb because apparently a french couple was climbing and the guy stepped on the womans long skirt and she fell down and died.
Quite sad but extremely possible.
Lastly we climbed this hill to see the sunset.
The climbing the hill was easy but when we reached the top we realised that they built a full temple structure thing on top.
So we had to climb that too.
The sunset was beautiful and there was just so many people on the structure it was amazing.
From the bottom it was difficult to see the temple because most of it was covered by people.
At night we went to this cambodian massage place.
While the rest of the tour people did the full body one, I only did the foot and leg.
It was really nice and it was not painful like the chinese powder one because they used oils instead.
At the airport the signs also had four languages.
Khmer, French, English and Chinese.
At main museums and places of attraction, the signs were in Khmer, French and English.
At the main cities of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, it was really like a rural area.
There was no shopping malls, only privately run mini marts.
There was no tourist kind of shops but instead the people peddled their goods.
The children and speak many languages especially english, chinese, japanese and korean.
Many koreans go there to set up businesses because it is cheap.
The hotels have so many channels because tourism fuels the economy.
And there are many tourists from all over the world.
There are also many foreign language channels i.e. french, german, russian, italian, spanish.
I wish I had that many channels.