Sunday, May 27, 2012

Phnom Phen zero day

Going to skip around a bit out of order. After having a great time with Aami, my southern china flight was cancelled and had to leave a bit earlier than i wanted to and  had planned for. Arrived at the airport in fukuoka  quickly. In japan the trains are  the money timewise. The flight was delayed and i was forced to walk the airport through the duty free shops. depending on the country most duty free are jips. wandering around the airport munching on gyoza and milky candy. Not much entertainment for those stuck or should i say %ucked.
After another hour and a half, I boarded the southern airline to phenom phen. A layover for an hour in guangzou,china. wow. nice airport for prisoner transfers and cattle trades. I am not a great fan of the pushing and shoving and general lack of spacial and social awareness the chinese exhibit. I was reminded of a trip lisa and i took to halong bay where there was a 2:foot ledge and most were walking carefully and orderly. all were told to walk single file to be safe,so what happens next? a few hefty loud and tacky chineseo women push through us and almost knock us down. There was no reason to bum rush the show. No excuse me or  sorry . Then jumped in front of lisa and me  posing like kittens in human form and suddenly out of nowhere appear in the middle of our photo. Posing.full on stupid and prancing around abmormally. Anyway back to guangzou, seems you are stuck there as it is the hub for seasia.  they dont mark prices and depending on your level of thirst can and will gladly extort you for bottled water. i was tempted to drink from a water fountain or sink but after seeing, smelling and becoming acutely aware of the hygene of china's finest travellers that wore the stink of tobbacco like a cloak, decided to pass on it. whew caught myself could rant for hours on how my chinese expirence fouled me. nouf said. So guangzou airport is the poipet of china, in my humble opinion, meaning shithole. On the flight ok. there was problem with my boarding pass and only took 20 minutes forbp tweedlebdee and tweddledumb to figure out. On my way.  At this stage beat and hungry but was in no way going to sample.the recycled food that bwas being pawned upon  the weary traveller who would later no doubt visit dr who and get a liquid expirence. eck. landed in phenom phen late and had to get visa on arrival. this was a quicker better way than when lisa and i paid tea money to what we later figured out were camboodians upper crust civil servants. Simply for not going at the turtlepace we were required to pay a thres dollar bribe. I forgot to bring picture for visa but this guy was cool and scanned my pp photo for a buck. i got the business visa which allows me to update and amend for extra fiver. Was about 2 am as we landed. so i got my gear and always like to chill for 10 minutes before getting a taxi just so i can take a breath and scope the scene. nothing like being  driven around at 2AM by a dude that only see us dollar stamped on your for head. chilling and watching. pick this mellow bodian and ask to be driven to fcc. my hotel was booked that nite suprisingly tbe only nite the place i planned to stay was fully booked. dropped off at the quay at 3am. crap. so bouncing from low end to low end hotel finally landed a decent lownend room on the quay backpacker heaven. Room  was big and for the most part clean. all cool. now i am in cambodia.

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