Hello laidee...
"tuk tuk laidee?" - pretty much what we hear everywhere we go. Infact, we seem to have picked ourselves up our biggest fan/stalker tuk tuk man. He waits for us everywhere we go. Foreigners pay them the most money, so they want your business, this one so much so that he has been taking us places and waiting for us to finish to take us back. It's funny and weird.
Yesterday we went to the killing fields, which is where the 'Khymer Rouge' buried their victims in the 70's. I thought it was the only one, but learnt that it is just one field out of 343 across the country. The Khymer Rouge wiped out 25% of the population during their power.
We also went to a cake shop. It was quite random being in a cake shop here, it's not something they have. It's a social enterprise that has been set up to help girls who have come out of the sex trade. They teach them new skills and train them up and give them a job. The cake I had, baked chocolate cheesecake, was amazing. The journey to get to the cake shop was an adventure itself - we were in a tuk tuk following Charlotte on her bike, but she got lost and couldn't work out how to get there and we were pretty much going round in circles for ages, luckily the driver (aka. our biggest fan), found the whole thing hilarious.
In the afternoon we were invited to Zach's first birthday party! Zach is Charlottes boyfriends ('TR' - he is Cambodian) nephew. He was pretty cute, if not slightly overwhelmed with all the people that were at his house. It was a traditional Khymer (word for 'Cambodian') birthday party, not disimilar to a UK birthday, infact, they even sang 'Happy Birthday' in english. Zach even sang down the microphone, impressive for a one year old.
Today is Sabrinas last day, so we are off to the market to make the most of it - she loves a bit of market action.
Photo = Leah, Sabrina and Charlotte
Yesterday we went to the killing fields, which is where the 'Khymer Rouge' buried their victims in the 70's. I thought it was the only one, but learnt that it is just one field out of 343 across the country. The Khymer Rouge wiped out 25% of the population during their power.
We also went to a cake shop. It was quite random being in a cake shop here, it's not something they have. It's a social enterprise that has been set up to help girls who have come out of the sex trade. They teach them new skills and train them up and give them a job. The cake I had, baked chocolate cheesecake, was amazing. The journey to get to the cake shop was an adventure itself - we were in a tuk tuk following Charlotte on her bike, but she got lost and couldn't work out how to get there and we were pretty much going round in circles for ages, luckily the driver (aka. our biggest fan), found the whole thing hilarious.
In the afternoon we were invited to Zach's first birthday party! Zach is Charlottes boyfriends ('TR' - he is Cambodian) nephew. He was pretty cute, if not slightly overwhelmed with all the people that were at his house. It was a traditional Khymer (word for 'Cambodian') birthday party, not disimilar to a UK birthday, infact, they even sang 'Happy Birthday' in english. Zach even sang down the microphone, impressive for a one year old.
Today is Sabrinas last day, so we are off to the market to make the most of it - she loves a bit of market action.
Photo = Leah, Sabrina and Charlotte
take a picture of the tuk tuk man! Oh by the way, have you heard the exciting news from the Suttons?!