Pnom Penh

After leaving Tuol Sleng we walked over to a Meditaranean restaurant that looked really good in our guide. We decided it was time for a break from Asian food.

Unfortunately it was closed, so we hired a tuk-tuk to take us to the main strip by the river. We gave him the address of an Italian restaurant, and we were off.

After a few minutes, we realized we were going in a loop, and that he had no idea where he was going. We stopped and showed him a map, but that didn't seem to do much good. Eventually he found another Tuk-Tuk driver that helped him get his bearings. To be honest I was not impressed with Pnom Penh's drivers, because the next day my tuk-tuk driver didn't seem to quite know where my travel agency was (although he got there taking a fairly direct route... at least he knew the general area it was in!).

At first my friends and I were upset, but then we actually ended up in a really neat neighbourhood. We were surrounded by embassies, USAID's office, an international high school, and what we could only guess were some of the nicer homes and apartments in Pnom Penh (since everything was behing walls/gates with barbed wire on the top). Getting to contrast that neighbourhood to some of the poorer areas of the city was really cool. Eventually we got there, still only paying him what we had initially agreed to (I think it was $1.50 USD). So we basically had a "free" tour of the embassy distrct of Pnom Penh!