a free tour for 20 bucks!
After taking an hour of nap I couldn't sleep anymore so I left our room where Eka was still sleeping. The guesthouse was completely deserted and I didn't know exactly what I wanted to see outside so I decided to just use the guesthouse's internet, which was ridiculously expensive by the way and completely useless because it was so slow. I thought that we would be incredibly rich in Cambodia when I found this room for only 2 Euros a night but that was the only cheap thing we had to pay for while everything else was pricey. For just one more euro we could've just chosen a room with private bathroom and not a bathroom that we had to share not only with other guests but also with the guesthouse' staff, the security guard and even some tuktuk drivers passing by.
Our tuktuk driver came back in the afternoon to take us for some FREE temple tour and watch some amazing sunset or whatsoever. We first had to stop in an ATM machine to withdraw some dollars. Every transaction I had to pay 2 dollars and being the smart me, I withdrew 20$ five times instead of widthrawing 100$ once. I hated the fact that we had to use dollars instead of the local currency because it made everything expensive.
The tuktuk driver took us to some floating village where we were forced to pay 20$ for some boat ride! I thought this was going to be free?! I didn't find the people nice at all and I especially hated this guy who looked and stared at me as if he's going to rape me or something.
Anyway, so we got on a boat and saw this village where people live in boats. I wondered how these people got used to seing foreigners passing by everyday and taking pictures at them as if they were some animals at a zoo. I don't think they liked being watched at all as I've observed. There were some people who didn't mind taking a bath in the water as if they don't dump their waste there as well. The smell of the surroundings was familiar and I think I remember it from somewhere.... oh I know! It smells exactly the same with the water from our toilet in the guesthouse!
The boat driver took us to some restaurant where they keep crocodiles for I don't know what reasons. We just stopped by and didn't even think of eating there, not that I'm saying the crocs were for dinner or something! We went back to land and walked up this hill to see some temple.
The ride back to the guesthouse was very cool and relaxing despite some invisible bugs kept smashing into our faces. We had dinner at the Japanese hostel again and I tried some Cambodian food called Lok Lak (I hope I remembered it right) and it was pretty good.
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Location was fairly good. Our tuk-tuk driver took us there in no time after we were randomly dropped off by our taxi in some random road in Siem Reap. The staff were really nice and friendly. We didn't get to try their food though because everytime we try to order something no one was there to cook so we ate all the time at the nearby japanese hostel instead.
Internet is not free and quite expensive compared to the internet cafe just a few minute walk outside. The room we got wasn't that great, with NO windows and only one fan that barely moved/rotated/swinged? hehe. And the bathroom was the worst of all. Water was very stinky and it wasn't definitely clean. It wasn't really shared with the other guests (as no one but us chose to suffer) but with the staff, and many randoms (tuk-tuk drivers!).
But all in all it wasn't so bad. They have free pool and the common room/restaurant is cosy. I loved talking to the staff who were laughing at me playing a riduculous game of billiards (on which i have mistaken the pink ball as the white one thrice... wait, there is a pink ball right?!). I will stay here again but next time, I'll not mind spending a couple more dollars for a good shower.
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