The flight from Siem Reap was quite cool - at first the landscape beneath you in Cambodia is completely flat... then when I woke from my nap the landscape (now in Laos) was dominated by beautiful mountains covered in green. I made friends with a guy from Quebec City while waiting for my visa (he noticed my Canadian passport), and we got a great deal on a hotel room (a third off the asking price). $5.50 each for a beautiful room with a/c, a TV, towels, etc. Much better than the $4 dorm room at the hostel (it also had no a/c).
The internet is painfully slow here, so I might not be able to post many pictures from the temples in Angkor. Pics may have to wait until Thailand.
Now about Laos and Canada... at the airport they had the various prices for citizens from different countries. Out of every country in the world, Canadians alone had to pay $42 for their visa. No other country had to pay more than $40, while most were $30 or less. Does anyone know why Laos is discriminating against Canadians? Is it particularly hard for them to get Canadian visa's?
Weird. Why discriminate against Canadians?? I am going to look into this for you.
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