Unfortunately the check-in time was only at 1 o'clock.
So we decided to go to the floating villages in the meantime which were very impressive. Imagine people living on water, they even have supermarkets, shops, schools there. Literally a floating village.
The guide asked us to buy some food at the floating market for the orphans living at the school. Although we paid a way too much for the noodles we got we felt like doing something nice.
People there are very poor, they would come in their small boats to ours and beg..
At one stop we could see crocodiles and were allowed to hold a python!
Afterwards we went for breakfast/lunch. Yummi!
We were just glad to go back to the backpackers for a nap.. We shared a tiny but cute room with just 3 mattresses on the floor and a mosquito netting above. I actually had pretty much the worst shower in my life. Because it's dry season you would need to ask them to turn on the water. But even then I was forced to wash my hair with like three drops of water and I'm not even exhaggerating.
The next day the mission was to get up early, very early. That was indeed a mission.
We had planned to go to see the temples of Angkor and thought it would be nice to watch the sunrise there.
It was stunning although I was too tired to say anything about the view that time.
Apart from the sunrise the temples were amazing. I have to admit I found it pretty exhausting to walk that much and climb up everywhere though.
And the beautiful elephant we saw should not be forgotten.
After a really exhausting day at the temples we needed to relax in the evening, basically enjoing our supper - fried noodles with vegetables - and some beer at a bar with our new friend Tom from Australia.
This also means we'd only had a few hours of sleep when we started our journey to Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Vietnam. The trip wasn't too bad since we had already organized our visas in Pnomh Penh and didn't have to change the bus once.
We arrived in Ho-Chi-Minh quiet late in the evening and took a taxi to the backpacker we had booked in advance - first time booking something in advance.. just that they didn't have room for us. So they wanted to make us share one bed in another hotel for the same price. After some arguing we stayed in a very nice hotel room with one single and one double bed. Lucky us.
The next day we then moved to the dorm with shitty mattresses.
But there's nothing to complain about Ho-Chi-Minh-City.. when you've got used to the traffic.
And again the people are lovely. We met some students at a park who wanted to improve their english by talking to us. They could even say some sentences in german!
Yesterday we've been to the Vietnam War museum which was very educating and shocking at the same time. Now I actually get why everbody hates the US. Just joking.
You know when I mentioned I'm already used to be sweaty and dirty all the time. I reckon I was wrong. I had a scrape on my back which got infected now probably because I'm never clean for a long time..
It's not too bad though. It's just really sore touching it. So I can't lean back.
Gary's infected knee is much worse why we had to go to hospital today. Gary and Kennedy will have to stay here for some days so he can recover. We might be able to meet up in Ha Noi again.
Till then I'm very sad to leave my beloved travel mates behind and move on by myself.
My bus to Mui Ne is going to leave tomorrow in the morning. I'm all excited about the beach!
By the way I just had a Tofu burger for supper! I couldn't take any pictures, I was much too busy enjoying it!
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