We were in Cambodia for a week. I think the second last day we were there was January 1st and we saw a long fireworks show coming from the city (most likely from Pub Street). I did some research and found out that in January 2019 there are 16,378,478 people living in Cambodia, and I think most of them drive scooters, so it gets a little crazy driving down the road. We saw a man driving a with three kids in front of him, and two behind him, and we saw some others with parents and very small babies. The good thing is there are so many people there that there is a lot of traffic so it’s slow. We didn’t see a single car crash. 

The capital city of Cambodia is Phnom Penh, but we stayed in Siem Reap. Cambodia is near Thailand and Vietnam, and when you think of it you would probably think of Angkor Wat, but that is only one of the cool things about Cambodia. Here is my list of three things to see/do in Cambodia.

1: Tuk-Tuk’s 

We didn’t have a car and we stayed a little outside of the city, but that wasn’t a problem because we took Tuk-Tuk’s. Tuk-tuk’s are different in Thailand and Cambodia. The ones we took in Cambodia are a scooter with a trailer on the back with two bench seats that fit two people on each bench. Some people don’t consider these the real ones. They say the real ones are like little cars with one driver’s seat and a seat for two people in the back. It doesn’t matter to me because I liked them anyway because they didn’t make me car-sick, and they were just fun to ride.

2: Temples (Angkor Wat and Beng Mealea)

The FIRST monkey we saw on our trip!!

Angkor Wat is a big temple that was discovered in the forest in the 1800s by a French explorer who was looking for tropical bugs. Angkor Wat was a very big temple around 900 years ago. The city of Angkor probably had over a million people livening there when it was at its biggest. The city was abandoned and the people never came back. Hundreds of years later it was found and part of it was restored, and the explorer that found it also found a journal of a person that lived there. The journal had all kinds of details about what life was like in the city. Angkor Wat (the temple) is three levels high and it is really cool to explore, and when we were there we saw our first monkey since we started to visit tropical places.

Beng Mealea is another temple that we visited, but it was never restored so it’s just how they found it (almost). We think it looks like something Indiana Jones would explore. It’s really cool. We had trouble finding the right trail when it was time to leave and we got lost and had to walk back through woods and look for the correct trail. It took longer, but on but on the bright side we bought some mango from a lady who was selling them along the trail before heading back to our trail :).  It was really cool to visit a temple that was not restored all the other ones we went to were in better shape, but they were cool too.

3: Traditional Cambodian Food

The food in Cambodia is delicious. We tried some traditional food and our favourite was fish amok. The food in Cambodia is a LOT less spicy than the food in Thailand, but I still like both. 

Bye: Eve

P.S. Why did the snail paint a big S on the side of his car? So his friends could say ‘’Hey, look at the S-CAR-GO’’ .