The next day I got up and walked around. My neighborhood had lots of piles of garbage and recycling on the street. Odd place to build a hotel. Lyon showed up somewhere around 12:30 and we went to a pretty nice local place to eat some lunch. More Amok, and a tremendous amount of other food came. Cambodian food is good, though I didn't have anything that killed me in the way that Thai food does. It never gets that spicy, and seems to be more sweet and soft. Still, has lots of SE asian flavor, with the usual influence from China and India along with the local delicious flavors. After lunch we tried to get a mini bus, but we had missed the last one. Our only option was a taxi to Siam Reap, which would be extra expensive because it was Chinese new year. Everyone I spoke to seemed to think that they had a Chinese great-great-grandfather, though they didn't look too Chinese and weren't actually going to be celebrating the New year. Anyway, it was a good chance to charge more. We paid 80$ for the trip which took about 5 hours and was interesting for as long as it was light. Reminded me of driving through rural India a bit, lots of farmers and cows and tropical looking villages. Then it got dark and the lack of lights combined with the continued presence of farmers and cows walking in the street made it pretty harrowing. Anyway, we made it in one piece and the hotel (which Lyon had generously offered to let me share with him) was very nice.
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