Cambodia: Reflections and Highlights
I was really excited to visit Cambodia for a few days and hit up Angkor Wat and the other temples in the area. Cambodia felt like my kind of adventure--and I can’t even really say why. But I was excited. I was excited for our hotel there--a full-out boutique hotel (not a hostel), with AC, a swimming pool, breakfast included, and airport pick-up for free--which cost us a scant $20 per night. And we’d read about a lot of great tours we could take with local guides. Flying in and flying out, this leg of the trip would be a breeze, and hopefully everything would be as cheap as the hotel. The Mango Rain Boutique Hotel Our flight to Cambodia was unlike any other I’ve ever been on. There were only about 20 of us on the flight--which would not have been strange, except it was, because we were on a full-size plane that could have seated 200. The 20 of us were mostly grouped together towards the back of the plane. Second impressive thing was that as soon as the plane got to al