We are on another bus ride to Sihnouke ville, 4 hours. Cambodia has let us down so far. We know its one of the poorest country but surely they look at there own streets that they spend time in and see the filth. Every street is like a dog has ripped a rubbish bag open and spread it all over the ground. A bag every square meter. Walking along the streets is like the game hot potato. Surly they must get ill from this filth they live in I was becoming to think are we going to catch something. The rats and dogs love it though, free food for them but they look like they are diseased.Cambodia will really suffer in a few years. Brunch was interesting Kelsey and I both got a stir fry with a whole chicken carcass amongst it, was very funny!We went through a market, they are sitting on the ground selling meat with there feet amongst the blood and guts gutting the fish and all parts of chicken cut in half on show. Fish slowly dying on the ground moving every minute. The smell, you cant explain it, the sights we have seen....we just cant explain it! They need help but seem to be happy. We havent been taking any photos as this make us targets, we stick out enough. We got a tuk tuk yesterday as I said in my blog before, it just felt safer to get one than walk along the streets. The hostel had a note saying it was safe during the day, but we all had a cautious feeling. Dont worry though we are being careful and not going out at night. We are glad we are experiencing this its a amazing feeling just to watch there world tick by. Last night it rained for a couple of hours, major flooding, never seen anything like it,only on Tv. Waist deep! We had to go out and get dinner! life was still running for the Cambodians like nothing was different. Driving as fast as they would if it was dry! It was flowing like a river down our hostel street, rubbish bags and broken bags gently floating down the brown watered street. Scooters under the water, cars halfway under, tuk tuks with people in them lifting there legs up and that is exactly what we had to do when we braved the sewage rubbish water. All 3 of us lifted our pants and tip toed through the water to get to our sunken tuk tuk. Off we went as fast as we normally would go holding on tightly trying not to get splashed, especially on the face. Our tuk tuk was very close to becoming a floating tuk tuk! Water was flowing inside our carriage,lifting our feet as high as we could up in the air, all of us laughing, as well as our tuk tuk driver. He didnt care to much about taking his poor scooter that already looks like it has missing parts and is just going! We did see a few people pushing there scooters and tuk tuks through the water as they have broken down. It was sad because that would be the only thing they have. They wage here is only $150 a month. I really dont know how they eat or live! For us here is like $4 a meal. We are thinking that they must charge tourists more or they just buy at the market and get things extremely cheap! We are spending 1 night in sihnouke ville and then going to Koh Rong an Island! Koh Rong is a tiny island with no type of transport, our directions to get to our hostel is turn right at the pier and we are 5th place.So another few days in Cambodia and then Vietnam. Hopefully Vietnam will have amazing food and cheap because its not any of that here!
Sorry no photos as our camera has been to scared!!!!
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