simon and olga do s.e. asia

Hi everyone

We flew to Siam Reap on Saturday and managed to find a nice clean hotel in the centre, although our driver did try several times to take us to his brother’s/dad’s”hotel out in the sticks somewhere! We spent a 12-hour day on Sunday looking at the Bayon and Angkor Wat temples…

…and watched an amazing sunset from the top of a hill overlooking Angkor Wat.
We fell straight asleep when we got in, and my legs still hurt! Although there are a lot of nice bars and restaurants here, the local people are mostly very poor, and many children don’t go to school. There were a lot of children and land-mine victims begging for money, which we were later told is collected by the mafia. A lot of the money that comes from tourists also seems to go straight to foreign hotel-owners who pay their staff about $30 a month wages. One project that seems to have made a big difference is the childrens hospital here that was set up by a French doctor and treats children from all over Cambodia for free.

Lots of love

Si and Olga