Not bored at all in Phnom Penh

[Baas Babelaas]

You dare devil you!

[mingmong]

pseudolus I enjoyed the post, PP is a new Country saying that I was last there 10 years ago and blown away by the Poor to Rich difference , from Beggar to SUV

them old Rollers can cost 5k just to fix the rear brakes system in Oz! I bet its not long before some one puts a Toyota engine and tranny init!

the place is defiantly a step back from Siam!

[pseudolus]

Poor to Rich difference , from Beggar to SUV

Most definitely.

[stickmansucks]

Great report, thanks.

Do they still propose weed at every street corner ?

Do girls smiles in the street ?

How are the bar girls compared to Thailand ? Friendly and submissive like anyone who wants to improve his life ?

Thanks.

[fishlocker]

Nice pics. Cambodia is on my bucket list. I would love to tour Angor, PP, the coast ect.

[thaimeme]

Lovely pic thread, Sid..

Well done.

[beerlaodrinker]

Great report pseudo, wouldn't mind another trip to PP , that gaff you stayed in looked good, will keep that in mind for the next time Lao airlines or Vietnam airlines have a promo. Only cost me a couple of hundred bucks last time, short flight to, only takes about 8 beers from Vientiane. Nothing boring about the place at all, I'm just back from pattaya, koh samet and Bangkok will bung up a Fred later.

[Loy Toy]

Never been and Pseudo's great thread has enticed me take a trip.

[dirk diggler]

I went with my (now ex) gf in 2009 and still had an awesome time.

[pseudolus]

First time I went there was just for a day. I had a morning meeting, and then had to wait around all day for a return flight due to a cancellation. On that day I was piss bored because I was not geared up for hanging about, and had no clue what to do.

It is simply a fascinating place though - the juxtaposition be wealth and abject poverty is so in your face, all the time. I saw some hiso bloke, replete with body guards, abusing some local scutter who had bumped into him; the scutter was standing whilst this rich bloke was shouting at him, hitting around the head, and all sort with the bloke having to take it. All the other scutters in the area not doing anything when in reality if they had all got together and walked over to the rich kid they could have taught him a valuable lesson about acting like a khmer goon regardless of his bodyguards. Thought would never cross their minds though, so conditioned to knowing their place.

The traffic is insane - said that before, but it is. However, it is not dangerous insane because everyone drives so slowly. You hop in a Tuktuk and the bloke proceeds to drive the wrong way down a duel carriage way, pulls into the fast lane, stops, waits, and then performs a u turn with a big truck approaching - in thailand you would be a smear on the road in a second, but there its just expected, so no big problem. Interesting to note that not many cars have the bumps and scrapes that all cars in Thailand have.

I felt less a target of being ripped off there, although I am sure I was. I did not get to grips with paying USD and Riels. I should have looked it up before going, but 1000 riel is 25 cents. But if someone short changed me 25c or even a dollar I don't really care.

LT - take surgical masks if you go touring - the dust is pretty bad. There is a big pharmacy western style and meds are very cheap there.

[Loy Toy]

LT - take surgical masks if you go touring

I'll take my oxygen geared bucket with me!

[sabang]

Reminds me of Bangkok in the 80's.

[rebbu]

Well done. Great thread. Deserves a green but gotta spread the love.

[barrylad66]

nice thread psudo, been their a few times and the last time cycled across it. thought the people were great, although i didn't think much of the grub.

[Baas Babelaas]

Guess I didn't have such a bad time. Some pics for your thread Pseudo




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[cnx37]

Great pics! Thanks for the tour.

[Chittychangchang]

nice thread psudo, been their a few times and the last time cycled across it. thought the people were great, although i didn't think much of the grub.

I remember those crispy French bread rolls in Cambodia.

Looked mouth wateringly delicious till you bit into one and tasted the sickly sweet sugar.

[pseudolus]

tasted the sickly sweet sugar

If you mean the sandwich they sell on the street, the bread is not sweet but they firstly spoon on some sweetened butter. I asked for without it the second time - scrumptious.

[terry57]

Have not been to PP for maybe 6 years or more, I might go to that gaff That 9999 recons is good crack.

Bored in PP, fuk me EH, you must be joking.

[cdnski12]

Sounds like the Thai Embassy is actually enforcing the rules. Cleans out some of the gaffers who are bending the rules. The airlines are making bundles of swag.

[pseudolus]

Sounds like the Thai Embassy is actually enforcing the rules. Cleans out some of the gaffers who are bending the rules. The airlines are making bundles of swag.

They were indeed. I had arrived at 9.30 an hour after opening, and there were a handful of farangs sat waiting for the consulate official to rock up which she did at 11am. Of the 6 or 7 people waiting who had not got the OK from the people behind the windows, I was the only person to get a "that's fine"; I was only waiting to see if they could speed up the process and collect the next day.

The majority of the ones being rejected were those applying for Ed Visas off the back of a couple of years of visa border runs.

[terry57]

^

I gather those lot cannot get back in Thailand at this moment.

They will need to go somewhere else, hangout and blow out some time before they can enter on a tourist visa.

In the mean time all their kit is back in Thailand. May not be there when they get back.

I can see a heap of people involved in the Dive industry stuck in this situation.

Bad luck that innit.

[Albert Shagnastier]

Guess I didn't have such a bad time

Blimey, the hotel looks pretty basic.

[pseudolus]

I can see a heap of people involved in the Dive industry stuck in this situation.

Bad luck that innit.

Yeah one of them was sat there with his pony tail and Dive Phuket T-shirt on asking for an ed visa... and got turned down.

I don't have any pity for them really - they know the score, and just because they get away with it for a while does not make it right. If I was in their shoes I would move to Cambodia anyway.

[Baas Babelaas]

Those dark marks under the bed are blood stains and body fluids by those who died there.

Grim.

30 minutes and I was out of there. Seen too much death to want to re-live it.