Leaving :(

Liz and I are currently back in the Seoul airport waiting for our next flight to take us to Germany. We are both very sad to be leaving Cambodia...we had such and awesome time and will miss the hot sunny weather!


Here is a pretty sunset from our last ride out to see Angkor Wat.

Here are Liz and I walking home from the Orchidee (awkey day)...well...we had taken a tuk tuk to pub street, and then walked from pub street to the orchidee (another bar)...but when we wanted to go home, there were no tuk tuk's waiting outside to bring us there...so we started walking until we found a ride :) walking in dirt roads in heels is not an easy task!

Here are Liz and Jon being attacked by the local children...beggars...they literally swarm you when you walk down the street...we got to know a couple of them pretty well. Liz and Jon seemed to be the beggar magnets though :)

Here is Matt trying to ride his bike while carrying 2 coconuts, and a huge korean grill, while smoking a cigarette! luckily, he made it back to our table on pub street alright!

Mmmmm fresh coconut!!! I am really going to miss these....

There are these huge spiders that like to hang out at night....i don't think they're poisonous, but we had Jon kill this one anyways...they are so creepy.

Jon and Matt...or Harley and Marlboro Man, ready for one last drive before Jon sold his bike back (he left on the 22nd).

One last morning on the roof top...Jon is almost ready to leave! :(

Group photo in front of the house and the tuk tuk that is taking Jon to the bus station.

Bye Jon!! See you in like a week back home!

So, Liz and I left....yesterday? haha...we are so messed up from the time differences...we left on the 23rd and had a taxi drive us to Phnom Penh (about a 4 hour ride). Once in Phnom Penh, we went to visit the royal palace...it wasn't really like one huge building, but lots of smaller, really pretty, ornate buildings. We felt like our taxi driver was kinda like our body guard because he walked around with us all day...too bad he didn't speak any english, so communicating to him about what we wanted to do or what we were actually looking at was pretty hard!

Here I am in one of the buildings....we had to cover up even though it was so hot out because there were a lot of shrines and holy places.

A view of a couple more buildings and garden-y type stuff. The building on the very left of this pic is the silver pagoda...it was pretty cool, the floor was entirely made out of silver tiles...there were also lots of gold statues with rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and diamonds on them...i love sparkly things!

Lizzy in front of a cool shrine.

After the royal palace, we took a small walk along the river...it's either the tonle sap or mekong river...but the palace was built where it was because 4 rivers intersect there. Anyways...on our walk we saw some very interesting cuisine....assorted bugs, and some small cooked birds....yummy.

Here is a view of the river...a lot of people were hanging out there.

After that, we got some dinner...our last meal in cambodia! Too bad it wasn't in Siem Reap, Liz and I both agreed that we liked it way better there than Phnom Penh...much less crowded and dirty! Also, the beers weren't 50cents in Phnom Penh...AH!

I had to get another coconut of course :)

Well, that's about it for Cambodia...I'm still really sad to leave and would one day like to go back! Now Liz and I are off on another adventure...long weekend in Germany before we go home! I wonder how well we can navigate our way around :)