Yesterday was by far one of my most exciting days in Cambodia. In my last few days I need to play tourist to take pictures and stuff. My plan for yesterday was to go to Wot Phnom and Royal Palace. I go to Royal Palace and find out that it doesn't open until 2, it was 10 in the morning. This tuk tuk driver that was nearby decided to take me under his wing. Initially I just wanted to go to Wot Phnom and then back to Royal Palace. This guy had different plans, he told me about a place called Oudong up in the mountains. He wanted to take me there, I said yes. This was 40 km outside of Phnom Penh so it made for a long tuk tuk ride. Part way there while in one of the provinces, his moto broke down! YAY!!!!!! This of course made me nervous because what if it didn't get fixed that day? I had no idea where the F*** I was. The driver talked to me while his moto was being worked on, he was a very nice guy, very great. He was my bud for the day! After his moto got fixed we got to Oudong, and I got lead around by some Khmer kids.
They took me around the ancient Buddhist temples and I took pictures, they took a couple of pictures of me. It was up really high and the temples were beautiful, you could see Phnom Penh from up there. I took many pictures and then we went back down the 502 steps it took to get up there. I saw MONKEYS!!! The best part was I got some really good pictures of them. I only took maybe an hour or so to tour the area, it was beautiful, and it was well worth the extra long tuk tuk ride out there. This day trip wasn't exactly cheap, we travelled about 80 flipping miles by tuk tuk, I talked him down to 50$ versus 70 but it was definitely worth 50 dollars for that.
Oh the day wasn't over, far from it, after that I went back to the guesthouse to decompress for awhile. I got some dinner at the Indian restaurant close to the guesthouse and then walked over to Stephanie's house because we were going to a party at Andre's house (an ex-coworker of mine). After we all got together we went there, his house is near Russian Market and a lot of people were there, it was very nice. I actually stayed there for a very long time before getting tired and leaving at 1 in the morning. Phnom Penh is freaking terrifying late at night, there are no motos, tuk tuks anything. The only thing I could hear (which admittedly was kind of cool) were my new boots clunking on the road, causing kind of an ominous yet awesome sound. Eventually a moto driver found me and I got back to the guesthouse alive. I ended my amazing, awesome day, by going to sleep for a very long time.
Till Next Time...
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