PHOM PENH

My friends welcome to the Capital of Cambodia!!!!
I arrived here on my second day of Cambodia and it was one of the best places ever!!! I will try my best to describe the atmosphere of this city but u have to be there to really get what am saying!!!
Well the city has a small area next to the city lake where all the guesthouses are!!!Its like a small KonSan road in Bangkok, but cambodia way..this is much more relax and easy going!!!I ended up staying in a shit guesthouse but really couldnt be botter to move after unpacking!!! But since the guesthouses are all after an other i would just hangout in other places, where i found some really good people!!!

Phom Penh is a flat city (highest point is a shopping center hahaha), and its a mix of the caotic asian citys with the beatifull avenues that once powerfull kings walked on!!! Since i have been here for 3 months now asian citys are the daily for me so it doesnt confuse all the traffic caos and stuff like that am quite used to it!!! But the surprise was to find such beatifull places and see how relax the city can be if u are talking about a capital of a country!!! This was the best, u can do the center all by walking and u feel u are like in small city!!!! Pattaya has more caos than this and pattaya is nothing in thailand and Phom is the capital of a country!!! It was very common to see Mongs everywhere and it really opens your mouth when u see a elefant walking in the midle of the street!!! Also the people are very nice if can overcome the fact that they want ur money all the time!!!Had a talk with this Cambodian University guy that told how hard he had to fight to get to university!!!

But not so far ago (1975-1980) this city was the capital of many nurders and genocidial actions against cambodia people by the Khmer Rouge, the comunist rebelians that murdered millions of people in this 5 years in the name of Comunism, supported by Mao in China!!! So there is a concentration field 14 km thats you can smell death all around!!! Its the Killing Fields!!!

Anyway we formed a group that could really represent the world!!!So fuck off Bush!!! It was a guy from Germany, New Zeland, Canada, France, 2 girls from Wales, 1 Brazuca, 1 Chileno e eu claro neee!!!! We had great fun!!!

Enjoy the pics and dont forget this blog has some days of delay since uploding pics in Cambodia is not the easiest thing!!!!

Center of Phom Penh

Street close to the Market

View of the city

Cambodia family hanging out on a hot sunday

More View

Cambodia Police...Buaaahh its hot!!!!

Central Market

Cota, xama a avo pa adivinhar o que e isto!!!!

Cambodia people eating

United Nations

Lets Dance...........Oh really???

Smile Guys

ONE.....AM GAY.......BBBRRRRR (Sorry couldnt resiste!!!)

Whatever i go there she is!!Pay respect to Cambodia beer!!Its a good one!!!

United Nations decide the future of the night while we eat some idian food

The Killing Fields!!!

Heads found in this place!!!!exactly 8913!!!

Clothes still remaining!!!

Common Graves!!!

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Avenue of the city

Am going to get you.....mmmuuaaaaaaa

Hmmmm good stuff...good stuff!!!!

The river!!!

Common Travelling in Cambodia!!!

Avenue next to river

Has anyone seen the peanuts lady???

Found her!!!! There i go...hey...hey

Avenue close to river

Small kids fishing and a guy taking a bath!!!

Square in front of the royal palace!!!

hahaha so this where u have been!!!!!hahahahaha

National museum

Happy Cambodian kid having fun on Sunday afternoon!!!!

Mongs in the city!!!!

Me in Vietname Cambodia peace monument!!

Vietname Cambodia peace monument!!!

Avenue in front of the royal palace!!!

Tipical mithical figure!!!

Royal palace!!!

Royal palace!!!

Royal palace!!!

CAMBODIA

Yeaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!Am in cambodia!!!! My visa was due to expire on the 21 of April so on 20 i crossed the border to cambodia!!!Untill now doind just great!!!! So the thing was: after songkran i packet my bag and was ready to catch a bus in pattaya at 6.00 am!!! Ofcourse on the night before i was able to lock myself out of my room with everything closed..no comments i managed, in very complicated story to get someone to open my door!!! Anyway catch the bus at 6 and arrived to the closest big city at 11.30!!had some food and catch a van to the border!!In the the trip to border i met this belgium guy Stephan that would have a good role later on!!! We got there crossed the border after negotiating the price of our visa!! I thinks its the only country in the world where u can negotiate the price of a visa hahahahha.... Anyway my plane was to travel directly to the capital Phom Pehn but.....at 15h there was no more buses so had to spent the night in this Cambodia town called Krong Kong Koh!!! Stephan was also going to spent a night and he a contact of a hostel that some friends recommned so....i got the ride and follow him...why not??? We get there and actually a nice quite place we some friendly people eventough they wanted ur money all the time!! (Cambodia people are actually really nice if u can get offer the fact that they always trying to ripe u off). In this small village there was nothing to do or do see so i spent the rest of the day and night with the belgium guy, a japonese guy and Noi (thai guy living in cambodia for 7 years hehehe)!!What we did all day and night?!?!?! Hmmmmmm....ask me in private and i will tell u!!! Next morning time to go on the road again!! It was a 5 hour trip to phom pehn. We get in a van with 9 people and some AC nice..........lets bust a move!!!!! After some day the road dissapers and is just a sand trail!!! The thing was that they where still building the road so.............u can image!!! We had to cross 5 rivers but the bridges werent ready or simple not there!!! so we had to cross it old style....see the pics for that!!!!Oh in the meanwhile there was this american girl on the van and we just starting bla bla since we werent the only westerns!!! She was quite interesting but a loud and histerical!!Oh wait thats wright!!all the american girls are like that!!! But still it was nice to meet here, problem meet here in Siem Riep in a couple of days!!! After 4 hourse we got to this road crossing and the van stops and me and the american girl had to leave!!!Hmmmm it was some worried minutes. We realised that our van was going some where else and we had to go on another one, but we paid all the way to Phom Pehn.. anyway this old van stops and we get inside and nobody asked us for more dolars!!So off we went!!! This was a 3 hour drive in a real cambodia van that stoped in every village to get people.It got so full there was people travelling in the roof!!! Well eventually we arrived to Phom Pehn and time to say goodbye to Andrea and jump on the back of a motorbike to take me to a GuestHouse!!! More on the next blog about Phom Pehn!!! Enjoy the piiccccs...........Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr sorry but that all!!! The net is to slow to upload pics!!! Some other time!!!

The road!!!

We had to cross in one of those!!

One of the rivers to be crossed

Heeelllooo!!!

Line to cross the river!!!

I think it can still fit 2 or 3 more people!!!

SONGKRAN IN PATTAYA

The songkran means thai new year!!! And the thai new year is celebrated with water!!! So what happens is that for a week everybody is trowing other to each other, so as soon as you setp outside.......SPLASSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH....Big bucket of water on yopur head!!! So you have to walk with no phone and everything u take outside needs to be inside a plastic bag because u have no chance to get away believe me!!!! So pattaya becomes a war zone with everybody making water fights!!! U have to be better to feel it thai people go completly crazy!!!! once again hope that the fotos give a good idea!!!!

The diving army

Me getting the tank filled

War veteran

The rival team...ggggrrrr

Soldier nick says hello!!!

Shoot them Barry!!!!

Reserve troops

Pattaya going crazy

No space to move

SPAAAALLLLLLLLLSSSHHHHHHHHHH