Preview of Feeandpete'sblog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Entry Title: "Contrasting Cambodian Capital" Entry: "Well! We'll remember Phnom Penh for a few reasons, some good, some bad and some itchy!! We arrived here in Phnom Penh after an 8 hour bus trip from Saigon and took a Tuk Tuk to the lakeside area which is a bit of a backpacker place. Got a room in Green Lake Guesthouse for $7 which seemed OK even though it had a bit of a hole in the roof but the drips were in the corner so we didn't mind too much! That turned out not to be the main problem with this room as we were soon to find out... Anyway we had a really nice meal in a cafe nearby and relaxed on our first night in Cambodia. It seemed a cool place, much poorer than neighbouring countries. There were a lot of poor looking people, rubbish dumped at roadsides and the roads were full of holes, yet there were a lot of really big new 4x4 trucks, Lexus cars and a few jaguars on the streets. We awoke to discover that Pete had been feasted on by an army of bedbugs all night!! Poor Pete, we gave up counting at 100 bites. They'd had a good munch of him! We could even see the routes they'd walked along stopping every few steps for a mouthful! Some hydrocortisone cream and antihistamine tablets and he'll be OK in a few days though! We set off to learn about recent Cambodian ...
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