Cambodia on Xmas eve
It sure doesn’t feel like Christmas Eve here. We arrived in Siem Reap today after two custom checkpoints, two hours on the bus and finally 15km of cyling. At the hotel and around Pub Street there are some Christmas lights and an occasional Christmas tree but the lack of Christmas songs playing overhead really makes it feel like any other day…..or any other day in Siem Reap, Cambodia. To give a brief description, I noticed that the car/truck/bus drivers are quite generous with honking. They give 4 quick consequtive honks as warning to cyclists and scooterists sharing the side of the road, which means they honk about every 30 seconds. The air smells of dust and exhaust - a combination of the dirt kicked up by the vehicles and fumes coming from the same vehicles. There were tons of tourists everywhere - mostly Chinese or Korean. We even spotted a Korean club.
