Its the afternoon of our second full day here, we were hoping to leave tomorrow but not enough people for the boat to Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) so not going now until Wednesday. The last couple of days have seen lots of wandering around town, taking in the National Musuem (a really lovely oasis of calm), the hill of Wat Penh, some shopping at the Central Market, a fair bit of eating, and generally getting to know the place. Today the object of our desire was the Russian Market and while we gave the attempt to walk there on our own a good shot in the end we hailed a tuk tuk. However, I'm quite sure the streets, allies, markets, we came across are not on any published walking tour...
The Russian Market was as I remembered, an almost impenetrable maze of stalls full of everything from Buddhist and Hindu Statuary to very cheap black market dvds (got the complete set of Black Adder for 4 bucks), to sweat shop clothing to endless food - you get the picture. Oh ya, we had the Best Ice Coffee in PP - with a Facebook page to prove it!
Weather has been ok, rainy season a month late and what that seems to mean is about an hour of cloud and at times hard rain per day, more refreshing than anything as long as you're not caught out in it (as we were yesterday, lesson learned!).
Ended up in an amazingly huge room, very well appointed and complete with a vast semi-circular balcony and tres moderne washroome and shower hardware, all very comfy and currently writing this on the rather large bed as we wait for said daily rains to end.
Tata for now, Kerry&Traci
PS: Yes we have been finding decent coffee although it does take a bit if searching. The usual local stuff I find to be very nutty and served up with sweetened condensed milk. It takes going to an upper end shop to get the good stuff.
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