News from Cambodia

Hey guys! Let me just give you - this is especially for our English speaking visitors - some news about our last days in Cambodia.
In the famous and at the same time incredibly impressive archeological park of Angkor we've spent three days. The first day we started visiting the peripherical temples by tuktuk, which was great, because by this way, we didn't spend our time in the crowded mass of tourists. The second day Alexandra got sick with high fever and so I did the planned bicycle trip on my own. This was amazing, especially one of the jungle temples, which was recommended by our guest house owner Erich, where I was totally alone. It was almost scary in the ruinous "Ta Nei" with the crickets' noise - or what was it? - in the background. Fortunately, the third day Alexandra was feeling better so that we could do the visting of the blowoff of the park, Angkor Wat, the central and largest temple. As we got up at 5am, we were quite lucky of having not too many tourists with us and could enjoy the sunset from there. But in the end, I preferred the smaller temples, where you stay quite alone without being attacked by obtrousive kids trying to sell useless stuff.
We've spent another relaxing day in Siem Reap before leaving the town by bus. The next day we arrived savely in Phom Penh, where we had some problems to find a free hotel, which is strange at this time, and ended up in a hotel with weird staff. We did not want to spend so much time in the city, so we decided to only visit the genocide museum and then leaving to Sihanouk Ville at the sea side, where we were promised to get the best visa service for Vietnam.
The museum wasn't in a very historical style, thus not too informative, but shocking and opressive with the possibility to see the cells where the regime critical Khmer were tortured and killed and the pictures of the victims exhibited in the rooms of the building which in former times used to be a high school.
Sometimes one really has the impression that all the intellectual people are gone in the country. The people are so nice on the one hand, but so extremely focused on making money! There isn't really a motivation of making things better, they appear really helpless after what they have undergone in the close past and get addicted to western help and crap like mobile phones and computers that does not help changing motivations of this country. This is only a little impression from here and likely subjective. For me, however, this country - till now - was the biggest experience on our journey and I learned a lot.
We now spend some days in Sihanouk Ville where we got a nice french guest house next to the beach with warm Indian0cean water. It's really a pity, that everywhere we are, it is a better choice going into European leaded guest houses that are mostly cleaner and more comfortable.
That's it... till now.
Cheers!

Angkor Archeological Park, Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville