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frenchytml
Joined: 16 Jan 2008
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oh ya...the killing fields were a very sobering experience....strange seeing a big building filled with skulls on top of each other!
also checked out that school that was turned into a prison, and that was quite interesting as well |
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mission_weasel
Joined: 23 Jun 2008
Location: Austin/Seoul
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HAHA. Wow the machine guns sound like fun. I would be interested in the rocket launchers too although I don't know if I would shoot a cow, but the idea that they would offer you that is funny. Maybe we will make it down to Sihanoukville.
This thread is getting me excited I need to book some cheap tickets now... |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow tearing chained up animals apart with machine guns and blowing up cows for fun in a country with millions of hungry children. All this on the site of one of the most horrific genocides the world has ever seen. Humanity really has come a long way. |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: asdfghjk
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| i 100% agree ^. we get our rocks off blowing up helpless animals and then wonder why they think we're such a violent culture. a shooting range is one thing, but killing (domesticated!) animals for sport is pathetic. i refuse to consider hunting a sport unless either: 1) the people get to use nothing but their bare hands and whatever they can find in the forest, or 2) the animals get guns too. |
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Captain Marlow
Joined: 23 Apr 2008
Location: darkness
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| how easy is it to get the "happy" stuff? i'm headed there in 3 weeks and am looking forward in partaking in it... |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| how easy is it to get the "happy" stuff? i'm headed there in 3 weeks and am looking forward in partaking in it... |
Quite easy in Siem Reap, but I didn't think quality was anything to call home about. The pizza made me tired, relaxed, and sleepy, but the smoking had little effect. One street in the old quarter just a couple blocks from the Temple Club in the old town where tourists go has several pizza shops and guys on scooters who will be glad to take $20 for a bogus bag. Ask the cook or server for service.
It was hilarious when I was eating in a happy pizza place last February and got to talking with an older couple doing church missionary work when I mentioned the pizza had marijuana in it. They were flabbergasted and said, "really? Oh my heavenly god in heaven we're getting stoned tonight! You've got to be kidding us, right?" Uh, no it's true. LMAO! They said they've never done illicit drugs in their life despite having been in Pnom Phen for the past 18 months and were taking a trip to Angkor Wat.
I vote Angkor Wat beer to be the best Asian beer in Asia. It really is good quality. Try the temple club for evening traditional music shows on nights your driver doesn't take you to a dinner buffet. It was kinda strange going to a fancy dinner buffet by myself. Despite inviting my driver to come in and eat with me instead of waiting outside for me, he wouldn't go in. Maybe drivers are not allowed in tourist places as they won't take your invitation with you paying unless it's a local tent restaurant for lunch near the ruins. It's good karma to give your driver water and lunch. The food actually quite good. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll be in HCMC in early Jan. and venture over to PP/SR for a couple of days. I am not too interested in spending more than 1 day visiting Angkor Wat as I have seen ruins before and once you've seen them once... Anyway, the Killing Fields is on the itinerary. How long does it take from PP to Siem Reap via bus? Should we stay in PP and thn take the bus over to SR? |
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NoExplode
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| sojourner1 wrote: |
| Captain Marlow wrote: |
| how easy is it to get the "happy" stuff? i'm headed there in 3 weeks and am looking forward in partaking in it... |
Quite easy in Siem Reap, but I didn't think quality was anything to call home about. The pizza made me tired, relaxed, and sleepy, but the smoking had little effect. One street in the old quarter just a couple blocks from the Temple Club in the old town where tourists go has several pizza shops and guys on scooters who will be glad to take $20 for a bogus bag. Ask the cook or server for service.
It was hilarious when I was eating in a happy pizza place last February and got to talking with an older couple doing church missionary work when I mentioned the pizza had marijuana in it. They were flabbergasted and said, "really? Oh my heavenly god in heaven we're getting stoned tonight! You've got to be kidding us, right?" Uh, no it's true. LMAO! They said they've never done illicit drugs in their life despite having been in Pnom Phen for the past 18 months and were taking a trip to Angkor Wat.
I vote Angkor Wat beer to be the best Asian beer in Asia. It really is good quality. Try the temple club for evening traditional music shows on nights your driver doesn't take you to a dinner buffet. It was kinda strange going to a fancy dinner buffet by myself. Despite inviting my driver to come in and eat with me instead of waiting outside for me, he wouldn't go in. Maybe drivers are not allowed in tourist places as they won't take your invitation with you paying unless it's a local tent restaurant for lunch near the ruins. It's good karma to give your driver water and lunch. The food actually quite good. |
Actually, that's BS. You don't get MJ in the pizza unless you explicitly ask for it.
Cambodia sucks. Too many touts, often very aggressive, occassionaly dangerous, really creepy expats there, and no way in hell I'd go there if I were a chick. |
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joeyjoejoe
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| Cambodia sucks. Too many touts, often very aggressive, occassionaly dangerous, really creepy expats there, and no way in hell I'd go there if I were a chick. |
agreed.
my 2 week trip there turned into 5 days after seeing the extreme amounts of prostitution (girls that could not possibly have been even 16 years old), drug abuse (being offered opium and heroin as well as the usual pot and speed outside my guesthouse, at any time of day), aggressive taxi drivers and (suspected) pedophiles. most of the tourists in cambodia, that i saw, were total scumbags, and it's ruined the place for me. locals dealing constantly with scum turn into scum themselves.
that said, angkor wat is up there with the most amazing places i've ever been. fly into siem reap and fly out again. |
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newton kabiddles
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| joeyjoejoe wrote: |
| NoExplode wrote: |
| Cambodia sucks. Too many touts, often very aggressive, occassionaly dangerous, really creepy expats there, and no way in hell I'd go there if I were a chick. |
agreed.
my 2 week trip there turned into 5 days after seeing the extreme amounts of prostitution (girls that could not possibly have been even 16 years old), drug abuse (being offered opium and heroin as well as the usual pot and speed outside my guesthouse, at any time of day), aggressive taxi drivers and (suspected) pedophiles. most of the tourists in cambodia, that i saw, were total scumbags, and it's ruined the place for me. locals dealing constantly with scum turn into scum themselves.
that said, angkor wat is up there with the most amazing places i've ever been. fly into siem reap and fly out again. |
where did you see all of this? I've never seen any of that in Cambo. |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| those 60-year-old white dudes holding hands with the little cambodian girls aren't working for unicef. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Agreed. Cambodia is well known as a premier pedo destination. Absolutely sickening. However, I don't have any problems with older guys with younger women (of age) who are obviously in a reciprocal relationship. I think many countries, the US for one, are far too puritanical. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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Bring plenty of $1's, $5's, $10's, and some $20's as Cambodia has a love for the US Dollar. No coins are used as they use paper Riel where it's like 4000 Riel to the dollar. You might get change back in the form of $1 and 2000 Riel for $1.50. Leave the Riels in Cambodia except for a couple red 500's with Angkor Wat on them.
See any old men doing funny pedo stuff, just pay the police to take care of business and call the hotline # you see in tourist brochures. I didn't see anything like that going on, but I did see many older wealthy looking single guys in restaurants who are most likely NGO office people. |
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sub
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: soul
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: Cambodia: One big rip-off? |
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I heartily agree with flying in and out of Siem Reap!
We just got back to Bangkok and are enormously relieved to be out of stinky Phnom Penh. What a hole. Three days was waaay too much.
Unless you are looking to martyr yourself and save the world or are really into underage prostitution and hardcore drugs, it is just dirty and smelly.
Then there is the constant scams and the corruption.
I would suggest taking a piece of paper and pen and get all verbal bargaining you will have to do written down. Because the cops will not be on your side.
I still feel to negative about the scummy place to write any more.
NoExplode wrote:
Cambodia sucks. Too many touts, often very aggressive, occassionaly dangerous, really creepy expats there, and no way in hell I'd go there if I were a chick.
agreed.
my 2 week trip there turned into 5 days after seeing the extreme amounts of prostitution (girls that could not possibly have been even 16 years old), drug abuse (being offered opium and heroin as well as the usual pot and speed outside my guesthouse, at any time of day), aggressive taxi drivers and (suspected) pedophiles. most of the tourists in cambodia, that i saw, were total scumbags, and it's ruined the place for me. locals dealing constantly with scum turn into scum themselves.
that said, angkor wat is up there with the most amazing places i've ever been. fly into siem reap and fly out again. |
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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Cambodia is great if you really make an effort NOT to be sleezy. If you can convince the local english speaking dudes who clutter up the front of every hotel that you are NOT a
1)drug user
2)sex tourist
3)Holier-than-thou-NGO worker (not saying they all are but geeze
4)Nut case
--Getting the 30 cans of Angor Beer for $20 was also alot of fun. And drunk driving motorcycles without a helmet. As a passenger. |
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