Over the Thanksgiving 2011 holiday, we traveled to Cambodia. We were expecting a bit of an adventure, but just about everything we did was easy to arrange and pleasant to experience. Taxis, the bus, hotels, restaurants, airports, bathrooms, sites and sights – our trip went surprisingly smoothly. Currency was a little tricky: absolutely every price (not just in tourist shops) was in US dollars, although anyone could pay in Cambodian riel if they had enough on hand. Usually, though, riel were used to give change smaller than a dollar, because U.S. coins were not in circulation.
Our first stop was the capital, Phnom Penh, which is a moderately bustling city with fewer shopping centers, chain stores, and international fast-food restaurants than any other capital city we’d visited. Continue reading
Indonesian observations 