A month ago I was fortunate enough to make a trip to Cambodia. I had originally planned a 5 day trip but due to some luck in the calander, it turned out to be a 10 day trip. Though my time in Cambodia doubled, I would soon realize that 10 days couldn’t even scratch the surface.
There were 7 of us WorldTeach volunteers on this trip, all first timers to Cambodia. I was a bit hesitant to travel with this many people but it was a laid back group so in the end I had no regrets. One of the high lights of the trip for me was the first 3 hours in Cambodia on the taxi ride from the border to Siem Riep. I sat in the front seat with our Cambodian driver, Choy, while midway thru the trip the 3 other volunteers passed out in the back. I stayed awake the entire trip determined not to miss a sight and was rewarded with many. One of the top sites had to be a moped driving by with 3 huge dead pigs strapped to the back seat on their backs with their legs dangling up in the air. (Haha, oh the things you see on mopeds have yet ceased to amaze me).
Anyways back to the ride. Choy hardly spoke a word of English, but we soon realized that he did speak some Thai! So we chatted with him for a little bit using our limited knowledge of thai. Our vocabulary quickly diminished and the conversation slowed. But before this trip I had promised myself that I would always learn a few basic phases before traveling to another country. So I tried a few out on Choy, and though he was not very impressed with my pronunciation, he was excited that I was trying. So for the rest of the ride while the others slept, he taught me some basic Khmer phrases using the only common language we had… Thai! I was so impressed with myself for not only learning some Khmer, but learning it through only speaking Thai!
As much as I enjoyed learning Khmer with Choy, im not ready to say that a taxi ride was the highlight of my trip to Cambodia. But I will say the highlight of the trip, and one of the sole reasons for the trip, was our time spent at Ankor Wat and all the other ruins. My fourth grade vocabulary can’t begin to describe with words how amazing it was. The scale, the detail, the physics, the age, the beauty… all mind blowing. So enough words, here are just a few pictures of the highlights from our trip.
still missing a few pictures from the last few days but ill put them up when i get to it
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