Two hours and fifteen minutes, from Guangzhou to Siem Reap, Cambodia.
When the plane is about to land, overlooking the Siem Reap scenery outside the window, you can only see a piece of green farmland, and you can't see any tall buildings at all.
I can't help thinking that Cambodia, a poor country that has experienced religious wars, World War II and Civil War, is really only devastated and destitute.
When a person is unlucky, everything will happen. For example, when I arrived in Siem Reap, I forgot my checked baggage and didn't follow me on the plane at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport.
After handling the baggage accident at the airport, I can only pray that the baggage will arrive that evening and then continue my trip to Siem Reap.
Walking out of the airport, the uninspired soliciting brother wandered among the passengers, feeling a little lost and uncomfortable inside, haha.
Before leaving, I sent an email to inform the staff of Angkor Liu Ye Boutique Hotel in Siem Reap to pick me up, but there was no reply.
I thought there was no chance to pick up the plane. When I was worried about how to take a taxi to the hotel, I saw a little brother waiting silently with an A4 paper with my name printed on it! It turns out that the hotel has already been arranged, and it really feels like another village!
Chapter 2: Cars in Siem Reap
After I checked in, I couldn't wait to visit Siem Reap, a place with developed tourism and the richest place in Cambodia.
Siem Reap, like other Southeast Asian cities, is decorated with the blue sky and bright bougainvillea, plumeria and phoenix flowers, which add to the fun of summer and the romance of the streets.
The most common car seen on the streets of Siem Reap is a Tuk transformed from a motorcycle.
Tuk, the front of the car is a bit like an electric car in our country, and the passenger seat is a bit like the back seat of a European carriage with a hood, which is more advanced and comfortable than the "passenger priority" in Vietnam.
TukTuk starts at 1 USD and can accommodate up to 4 people at the same time. Go straight ahead, and you will be warmly invited by tuktuk driver along the way: "Madam, TukTuk? for
temple，sunsetandsunrise？ "
As a thin-skinned China sister paper, I still smiled and said no while walking.
European and American tourists seem to be more indifferent and leave without looking at their eyes.
What I admire and feel speechless most is that I turned down a TukTuk driver only five meters ago, and Tuk after five meters.
Tuk driver continued to ask me if I wanted to take the bus. They always take the trouble to ask you, as if there is an expectation. Maybe one second you don't want to take the bus, and the next you change your mind and want to take my car.
Anyway, it is really a good choice to travel to Siem Reap by TukTuk bus.
With the development of economy, the disparity between the rich and the poor has increased, and gas stations and cars have become very common in Siem Reap.
Because the government is too corrupt to pay for roads and bridges, and almost all roads in Siem Reap are not easy to walk, SUV models seem to be more popular.
It is also common to encounter traffic jams in Siem Reap every 5 pm rush hour.
I don't know if it is the collection hobby of the local rich in Siem Reap or other reasons. Retro classic cars can be seen in the streets of Siem Reap and some restaurants, which is a bit abrupt compared with the surrounding environment. However, if we look at the history of Cambodia's colonization by France, we will find that everything is reasonable, with a little colonial exotic flavor.
The legendary child who scavenged for 1 dollar from tourists, I walked around several times and didn't see it.
On the contrary, I saw local middle school students in Siem Reap wearing neat white uniforms and riding electric cars or bicycles to and from school.
At the gate of a private primary school, I saw a scene similar to that in China: parents drove to pick up their children, and the school gate was blocked.
Chapter III: Guanyin in Siem Reap
I don't know if it is because the price in Siem Reap is cheaper than that in Europe and America, and there are many opportunities for starting a business, or because the poverty in Siem Reap has aroused the sympathy of Europeans and Americans. In Siem Reap, you can always see people from all over the world (more in Europe and America) settle down here.
It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and they seem to understand this truth.
People from all over the world who come to Siem Reap to take root are like "Guanyin Bodhisattva" in Buddhism, and they are all sentient beings.
The Japanese boss who runs a restaurant in Siem Reap gets up early every morning to clean the street where the restaurant is located and sort out the garbage. The straws used in restaurants are all stainless steel, in order to protect the environment and reduce pollution.
Swiss couples who also run restaurants and cooking training schools in Siem Reap, the chefs in the restaurants are all from cooking training schools, and the apprentices are Cambodian teenagers and girls over 16 years old. In the cooking training school, apprentices can learn English, cook and find jobs;
Among the 20 restaurants in Siem Reap, many restaurant owners are foreigners, and many of them are of a public welfare nature to help homeless and out-of-school children in Cambodia. The profits of the restaurants will be donated to charities;
Strolling through the bar street and the old market in Siem Reap, it is not difficult to find hotels, restaurants and shops with exquisite buildings and ornate decorations, and many customers behind them are foreigners, which brings different cultures, advanced technologies and management concepts to the local area and increases many employment opportunities.
Many people who come to Siem Reap for the first time will be in the old market (old
The market) lingers. Because here, 1 dollar can buy 2-3 refrigerator stickers, and 2-3 dollars can buy a pair of pants or T-shirts with local characteristics in Southeast Asia.
I like Angkor's calligraphy and painting, bronzes and so on. And I can also find my heart here.
If you like to shoot cultural customs, you can also go deep into the old market and live like a local.
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