Another day in Phnom Penh

Today we went for a walking tour trough Phnom Penh. We started the day with breakfast at our neighbour hotel, and then took the same 'tuk tuk' to the starting point of the walking tour: Wat Phnom; a temple complex on a hill.

On the way from the foot of the hill towards the temple we were 'greeted' by several beggar children. I did give one the cookies I had already been carrying around for several days but that only drew more attention on us...

So while going up the children kept following us up and kept asking for money...made it quite annoying to enjoy the temple at first. When going into the temple had to take off my shoes, and in my mind already saw the kids running away with them ;). So did decide to play it save and carry my shoes with me. Luckily after we were done the children had probably already found new victims so we could enjoy it a lot more from then on. From the hilltop we could also see several monkeys playing around in the trees downstairs.

Then we went on to the cental market. Around the actual central market are many stalls with only very narrow dark isles in between them. The stuff they sold wasn't very interesting, many watches and cloths/clothing. But the style of market was still very different from the ones in Hong Kong, so it was still worth to make a short visit. We did buy spring rolls there fried ones and the ones in rice paper.

Afterwards we went to the new market, actually more like a shopping mall.... There we went to a fast food place and ordered a Cambodia burger. (actually mainly to make use of their place to eat our spring rolls ;).

Then went to the booking office of the bus company and got the tickets to Siem Reap. We will be departing tomorrow morning at 11.30, will take about 6 hours to arrive in Siem Reap.

After getting the bus tickets went to the National museum were a lot of beautiful statues were on display. Among them a lot that came from Angkor Wat. Did hang around in the museum for a pretty long time, and at around 16.00 we decided we had to leave as we still wanted to visit the royal palace and silver pagoda (which would be closing at 17.00). But when we arrived at the entrance at 16.20 we found out that they already didn't allow any people going in anymore :(. Bad luck, but at least will still have something left for when we are here on our way back :).

Then decided to have a small snack in a korean restaurant, but the small snack turned out to be a full meal. We ordered Kimchi pancake, but later found out it included soup, rice, 8 bowls of vegetables and dessert... The food was really nice and cheap for the amount we got!

Then walked on to the independance monument which looked great as the sky behind it looked amazing. Then headed back to the hotel to drop off our stuff, woud finally be getting my haircut! But the 2 salons nearby only do haircuts for female.... So have a feeling I will arrive back in Hong Kong as one of the Beatles ;).