First encounter with a probable sex tourist

02.01.2017

I woke up with the sun, finally fully rested and took my bike out to Phnom Pros and Phnom Srei (Man and Woman Hill), where there was a bunch of monkeys and two temples. My plan was to eat breakfast at the top of the hill (which I bought at a baker on the way there). My plan was thwarted by a big fat monkey, who sat beside me. I have him my pack of ketchup, I thought it would be funny. He slurped it with delight, and then he proceeded to go through the contents of my bike basket. He didn't find anything interesting in there (food), so he then proceeded to throw everything over the hill. When I tried to stop him, he hissed at me, and continued on his merry way, eating my map and throwing garbage around until I lured him away with a piece of my bun. Pfft, monkeys. Not cute, stupid jerks really.

I fetched my belongings from the bottom of theh ill and walked up and down to the second temple and right through the site of a bunch of massacres. There was supposed to be a pile of skulls somewhere, but I didn't spend time looking for it.

On the way back, I stopped at Wat Nokor, which was an ancient temple with a new temple built inside of it. The clash of modernity with the ruins was really interesting to see. Some cheap people didn't want to pay the entrance fee, so I gave them my ticket, which I didn't use at the other two temples.

I biked back and picked up my bag to go to my next stop, Kratie.

I took out some money at the bank while waiting for my bus. $5 transaction fee, again, what the actual eff Cambodia!? By the time I got back there were a few more foreigners there going the same way. We were chatting and when the bus came a skinny guy from Colorado sat beside me. I followed him to his cheap guest house and we planned to have dinner. He had something vague to do which I wasn't invited to called "walking around town" for three hours. Oh really... I'll just let you mull that over for a bit and you can guess what it was.

Anyway, I ignored it and took a short ferry to an island in the middle of the Mekong River. It was dry season, so I amused myself by walking along the bottom of the river until it was time to head back.

I took a shower and went down to dinner with Mike, who also looked refreshed but probably for a different reason. He clammed up all night and even when I asked him direct questions, couldn't seem to answer them, even answering with an outright refusal. Anyway, he asked if I wanted to go see the dolphins with him int he morning and I agreed, but as the night wore on, he was exhausting me. Finally he called me rude because sometimes I like to banter with the touts on the street even though I don't want to buy anything.

So that was it for me, I went back to my original plan which was to ride another rental bike upstream to a pod of river dolphins in Kampi. Mike wanted to have another drink, but I declined and went to bed.

Phnom Pros