The evening of day 7 was the start of our IndoChina Discovery tour, booked with G Adventures. We had a meeting with our tour leader, who we now call Mum and, to give you an idea of what she is like, here are just a few of the rules I must stick to for the next month (in mum's words)...
1) prostitutes are not aloud, but boom boom in your room is ok
2) on the beach please no boobie boobie
3) if we go drinkie drinkie and party party please don't hug mum - drunk hugs scare her
4) some foods might be too much for your tummy so please buy anti poo
She also keeps 'accidentally' refering to the group as G Spot Adventures :-\ and she has the worlds most adorable laugh :-) we all love her to pieces.
After the meeting we headed out to dinner and then for drinkie drinkie in central Bangkok. Mum took us to a couple of bars for shots, cocktails, and buckets :-) and then to a club for dancey dancey, but as mum reminded us "no touchy touchy". It was an amazing night, and naturally Linda and I suffered for it the next day. We were up and out by 8am, on the coach, and then off to Cambodia. Which by the way was roughly an eight hour drive. Hangover + stuffy coach = grumpy Cassie + passed out Linda.
When the drive from hell was over we were able to crash in the hotel for an hour before dinner and I have never appreciated an air conditioned room and a soft pillow more. Also, we are now in Cambodia!
Dinner tonight was free since the restaurant was actually a training restaurant. We were taken to the outskirts of Siem Reap were a charity has set up a school, clinic and resayrant to help the local community. We got to sit in on the english lessons going on the school before some of the class cook and served our dinner. Oh my goodness it was amazing! One course we were given was Khmer curry and it is the best thing I have eaten so far on this trip :-)
I am sure many of you have wondered about the flooding and if we have been affect by it yet. The answer is no. The tourist areas are well protected, and almost all roads are unaffected. However, the tuk tuk rides to and from the restaurant were interesting. The country roads are not so well protected and the water came through the floor of the vehicles :-\ Everyone was very excited by it all.
Anyway that is all for now as yet again we have an early start in the morning :-)
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