You can not go to cambodia without visiting angkor wat ! it was one of the motivation for me to travel in south east asia. with masa and richard, we decided to celebrate christmas there. we bought christmas hats, crazy colorful sunglasses and a one day ticket for the temples. we were ready to enjoy siem reap. we found a cheap backpacker : for one d

After my stay at the ngo, i wanted to visit as a tourist the north east part of cambodia. i read on the guide book that you can see dolphins on the mekong’s river. no way, i didn’t believe this and wanted to check by myself. so i took a bus ride to kratie. it’s a nice little city along the mekong with a touch of french architecture. during th

Even if cambodia is a boudhist country, i was living in a rural city and the respect of the traditions was very strong. i needed to wear long dresses or pants. it was not adviced to show your arms and knees. because i was living in the middle of the ngo, i met every day cambodian and needed to be very careful about this. i bought some new tee-shirt

One week-end, we decided with the other volunteers to visit one of the floating village of the tonle sap lake. there is one close to siemp reap but it’s known as a touristic place. the one we went was smaller and more traditionnal. we arrived by touk-touk to a place similar as a slum. because of the dry season, the site was covered of waste and c

I arrived on the little morning in sihanoukville , known for its touristic beaches. it has been a fight between backpackers to get a cheap room. after 3 hours of negociation, i got one for 3$ the night. i didn’t have a huge budget and left my credit card at the ngo in order to not spend more than i can. i spent a crazy night with other travelers

Each time a new volunteer arrived, we needed to brief him about how to eat here. the idea is to put plenty of different meals in the middle of the table in order to share them. you first put a lot of white rice in the middle of your plate and it’s polite to take a bit of one dish in your plate. you eat this little piece of meat with your rice and

Here, when you give something, you need to give it with your both hands. otherwise, it’s considered as if you didn't want to give it. so when you are at the market, with plenty of bags of vegetables, you need to put every thing on the ground to give the money with 2 hands. i love it and when i gave the money like this, i felt very good. i kept th

I knew that i can not stay 5 months in cambodia without understanding the terrible and recent past. it was not a pleasure to discover this horrible details but i needed to know. it’s difficult today to speak about this with cambodians so i decided to learn by myself. first, i read a book which opened my eyes. throughout the reading, i lost my app

I am not scared anymore about spiders, i had so many of them in my room ! we lived together and i prefered to keep them because they kill the mosquitoes. my room was close to the pound so i needed to sleep under a mosquito net otherwise i was being devoured all the night. my favorite lezard is called gueko and has a nice story about its screams. th

With the same group of travellers from england, italia, canada or germany, we wanted to keep going the trip by a trek in ban lung. we decided to choose the same one. the jungle at this time of the year was pretty dry but the rangers explained us a lot about local flora and fauna. this part of cambodia is verry different. kids didn’t shout “hell