Recovering in Siem Reap

The day after we finished the temples of Angkor (and lots of buckets) we were extremely hungover. Joanne swore she was never going to drink buckets again. So we just took a couple of days off, since we'd worked so hard seeing all those temples. For two days we just hung around Siem Reap not doing very much. On the same road as our guesthouse I noticed a KFC was going to open soon. Lookalikes? Or maybe it was just the hangover.

Ho Chi Minh and Col Sanders -- separated at birth?

Uncle Ho -- Col Sanders' lookalike?

During our gruelling three days of temple stomping, my flipflops had started to come apart, but I paid a dollar to have them repaired, when a shoe-repair guy happened to walk past at just the right moment. I'm sure I could have bought a new pair for not very much more, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

After a couple of days of hanging around Pub Street, where we bumped into Marty and Jochem, for definitely the last time, I really wanted to get out of this super-touristy Cambodia and try to get a sense for what the "real" Cambodia is like. So we booked transport for Kampong Cham.

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The Happy Couple on March 7, 2009 from Siem Reap, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

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