Gecko Droppings: Back in the Kingdom

The colourful plane interior

So I’ve been back in the kingdom of Cambodia for 22 days, arriving on the 1^st of June, International Children’s Day, which I thought was very apt, being the main reason for this journey. This time I have a travelling companion, Jed, which has meant I’ve been able to do more touristy things. We flew from Sydney at 9:30 at night to KL, arriving at 4am. We then had a 5 hour layover. As most of the food on the plane was ridden with gluten, we stopped at one of the cafes so I could eat breakfast (lunch? dinner?) before the next flight at 9:00am. We found a couch to crash on for a few hours in front of a giant TV blaring the BBC news and some repetitive story about E Coli in Spanish cucumbers, but we found out after 4 hours that it wasn't actually the cause after all….phew! Strange being in an almost deserted airport when fatigued and lugging bags. Jed didn't sleep much on the flight or in the airport but I got in a few zzzz's on the couch. We caught our flight to Phnom Penh at 9:30am and got in 11ish. The hotel wasn't quite ready for us and I think we needed a rest to prepare for carrying our 50kg of luggage up 6 flights of stairs to our room.

I got a bit over having to keep reattaching the strap of my birkenstocks every 3 steps (it's been broken about 5 years and I wore them every day when I was in Cambodia last, yet never got around to getting them fixed), so we popped over to the shoe making district and a lovely guy attached some black leather with a stud to both buckles and asked me for $1 for 15 minutes work. So I gave him $2.

Saw one little boy about 2 years old near the shoe making district playing in the gutter filling a miniature tip truck with dirt with a teaspoon. Children will always find a way to play!