Chris and Mimi and I enjoyed a delicious pho breakfast before I caught a cab to the bus stop for my trip to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. After the visit to Angkor Wat (I haven't blogged about it yet) in early June, I had a sense that I really liked Cambodia but that I hadn't gotten a real taste. My plan for this trip was to do a "trek" in the Cardamom mountains.
The bus ride was uneventful, although when we stopped for lunch I chatted with a Korean girl traveling by herself who was on the same bus as me. We said goodbye at the end of the bus ride but then our tuk-tuk drivers took us to the same hostel so we ended up sharing a room to save money.
Jihye agreed to celebrate the 4th of July with me, but we were the only ones celebrating that night and didn't really make a good showing. We first had a beer at a bar called Slur because they were showing Wimbledon but it was two women we had never heard of. Then we went a little off the main street to a seemingly more authentic Cambodian place but it may have been a bit too Cambodian for our tastes. I got some chicken dish that was about 90% bone, and it was smothered in kaffir lime leaves, which I don't like. Jihye's dish was equally disappointing, so we got some ice cream afterwards, and then called it a night. It was a rather disappointing 4th of July.
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