Cambodia Trip

We landed at Siem Reap airport at about 10:30 and we got to our hotel about 11:30. Now you are probably wondering what we did in between those times. The first thing that took so long was immigration. I think the guy was thinking “if I am going to have to be here all night, then you will too”. And he took about twenty minutes! Usually it would take about five or ten. After that we went to go get our luggage with the Fendricks. Once we got it all we went to find our guide and driver. It is really humid in Cambodia, so we were exhausted and sticky. Once we got to our hotel re realized that it was way different than we thought. One thing, is that there were geckos (small lizard) and there were very dark hallways so we had to use a flashlight. I was worried that there was going to be no air conditioning, but luckily there was. We were looking out of our window and saw a huge beehive with a ton of bees swarming it. We were a little sad that we couldn’t open the window. At one o’clock in the morning me and my dad finally went to bed.

The next morning we took a van to where we could rent a boat to see a floating village. We got into a boat and sailed onto a lake where we saw floating houses, floating stores, and schools and a basketball court. We stopped at a floating restaurant, we wanted to see what was in the floating restaurant. One interesting thing was snakes. You could hold or feel a snake if you wanted to. My mom held one around her neck. I felt it and Emma and Trejan did too. Another thing was feeding catfish. We only watched, I didn’t want to feel the gross food. So we left and saw “alidiles” (alligators or crocodiles). After all of that we got back onto our boat which was in icky blicky yucky water. My mom and dad saw a little boy climb on the side of his boat house and poop! It was disgusting. It was probably normal for them because they had no bathroom and the lake was brown and dirty. The brown was an ice cream chocolate brown, not a hot cocoa color. Imagining a lake I thought it would be like a sea water blue, when I heard we were going to a lake.


Our tour guide was telling us about the raining season in April, and how it floods about three meters high. So, everyone moves up to the mountains and camps for two months while their houses get wrecked by the floods.

Once we got to our hotel and rested for a while we set off to Ankor Wat to watch the sunset. I was exhausted by the end of the day. Ankor Wat is a very old ancient temple made for a famous king there. It is the worlds largest religious monument. In other words, the world’s largest temple building.

On the way back to the car, kids chased us and were trying to sell us things they had for money. I felt bad watching them begging on the streets for money.