IAfter four days, it's sad to be leaving Cambodia. The people here have been wonderfully friendly and it has just been such a welcoming, easy place to travel. I fear that Laos is going to be much more difficult. Today we slept in a bit and then had our last big buffet breakfast at the hotel. When they asked us what we liked best at check out, we both answered "breakfast"! They had a huge mix of western and eastern food. I tried a lot of new fruits- longan, rock melon, and pink dragon fruit. I really loved the noodle soup for breakfast- they made it fresh while you waited. I topped mine with fried garlic and roasted shallots, and a few spoonfuls of soy sauce. I usually also had a croissant and some fried rice, and bacon. Oh, and yogurt and granola and dried fruit. See what I mean? Amazing.
We decided to pamper ourselves with some of the refunded money from our cancelled plane tickets and went to the spa for rejuvenating foot massages. It was just lovely. Quiet room, hour long massage that included head and shoulder massages too. It was positively relaxing.
We checked out, had lunch (cashew chicken for me, roasted pork with coconut and mango for Julie), and then went to the Angkor national museum just down the street from the hotel. It was a great museum. Their collection was limited but it was enough to give and example of the art styles and filled it in with great explanations, pictures of the ruins, and videos. Everything was in Cambodian and English. There were really informative sections on Hinduism and Buddhism, the Khmer kings, and the sites of Angkor Wat and Angkor Tom. It ended with an exhibit on costume styles during the Khmer era based on the he apsara carvings.
That was the end of our imminence in Cambodia. We took a tuktuk back to the hotel and got our bags, then it was off to the airport. Or flight was slightly delayed, but we are in the air now and heading for Luang Prabang. There was a Dairy Queen on board and we got blizzards to celebrate the Fourth of July.
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