Border crossings and new currencies.

Just a shorty as we’ll let the photos do the talking and a picture is a thousand words right?

In a nutshell:

The elusive squash parcel arrived 10am Wednesday morning, so we finally left Vietnam on the 3pm bus to Cambodia that afternoon, arriving at Mad Monkey Hostel in Phnom Penh at 9.30pm. We crossed the border to Cambodia which was bizzar… luggage scanning machines with no one watching them, hopping off the bus to get your passport visa then on again to drive 20 meters then off to officially enter the county by foot. Also Cambodia uses both their own currency and the US dollar and it’s just plain confusing.

On Thursday we went to the Killing Fields, if you know you know and if you don’t, Google it.

We then caught the *bus to Kampot on Friday and stayed at Arcadia for 3 nights.

*note the buses in Cambodia are not on the same luxurious level as Vietnam. So when we say bus, imagine; full mini bus, bags on laps, knees by ears, very bumpy roads.

Arcadia is a hostel in the jungle with a water park on the river bank were the mosquitos carry denge fever and everyone walks around barefoot. It’s absolutely as good as it sounds and then some. We stayed in a dorm of 14 with a curtain for a room door and it is easily the best hostel to date. Great food, great people, great music, great games. We went on a sunset boat trip, Jack played football with some local children, rode half way up to Bokor National Park got caught in the rain bought ponchos, turned around and came back