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And yet more temples

My balloon foot had shrunk enough to fit into actual shoes, which was lucky as today we were hiking up a 'mountain' (our guide liked to call all hills mountains) to Kbal Spean, a sacred waterfall with motifs carved into the rock it flows over. The hike was quite interesting, lots of clambering...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 16, 2011 from Siem Reap, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

Temple time!

Let the temple tour begin! First stop - Bayon in the Angkor Thom complex. Not being the biggest fan of tour guides as you can't really soak up the atmosphere of an incredible place like Bayon when you're listening to endless temple trivia (sorry!), Alannah and I were forced to get 'lost' in...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 15, 2011 from Siem Reap, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

Phnom Penh to Siem Reap

We took a six-hour bus journey to Siem Reap - we almost didn't make it as our coordinator Kimlay had completely forgotten about us! We made our own way to the bus station and he met us there, laid-back as always, to say goodbye. He gave us each a traditional Cambodian scarf (endless ways to...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 14, 2011 from Siem Reap, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

The limping tour

Today we got our walking (make that limping - my foot was still huge!) tour of Phnom Penh, starting off at the Royal Palace. Our guide was a fount of information but honestly, it was so insanely hot (especially since we were all covered up as per the palace rules) it was difficult to keep track...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 13, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

Snake - the cure for balloon feet?

This blog entry should be a short one - I spent most of the day in bed with my big, swollen foot up on a pillow. Even the TV refused to take pity on me, jamming up and blasting out music at top volume until I could drag myself out of bed to turn it off. I would have expected nothing less from...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 12, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

Volunteering cut short

My last and best day at the school, helped finish The Amazing Mural and got to take my class out for their 'sport' lesson which actually involved the kids sitting around me and teaching me to count in Cambodian, which I forgot within about 30 seconds of learning. I will miss the "Hello...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 11, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

Covered in paint

Another day of reciting words from the alphabet for Class C. I should probably have explained that there are two different Class C's, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, each with different students in them, although a handful of students do come to both classes when they can. Each...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 10, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

Back to school

Back to school to teach another (slightly repetitive) lesson on the alphabet to Class C...tried to add interest with games such as Hangman. The kids love team games where they have to race to fill in the blanks in words or solve anagrams faster than their opponents. In the afternoons I teach...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 9, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

First day at project

Up at 6:45am so that we could make the hour-long tuk tuk ride to our project, arriving at 9am. The journey was a crazy combination of the typically mad SE Asian traffic followed by bumpy and ridiculously dusty dirt roads as we headed into the rural villages just outside Phnom Penh. Alannah,...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 8, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

Getting (dis)oriented

Chocolate pancakes for breakfast at the hostel! We started the day with a tuk tuk tour of the city before heading for our volunteer project orientation...the thing was, nobody had told us we were headed for the project, so when our tuk tuk veered off into a network of narrow lanes with the...

permalink written by  lucy3119 on August 7, 2011 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Cambodia 2011

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