Siem Reap

Today was a day to just wander around the town so I got my little map
out and thought I'll just walk down this road until the bridge then
head back and buy a sun hat and go to a museum.

So I walked, and walked some more and after about an hour I checked my little map again and realised that I was walking down the wrong road, going right out of town to god knows where! So, I cooly turned around and started walking back, happy that I had put lots of sunscreen. About half way back on old man had just parked his moto and said hello to me so I said hello back. Then he said bonjour so I said bonjour back and then he started chatting to me in French and invited me to come and have some dessert with him, so I did. We sat for about 10mins eatng fried banana and chatted about nothing much really, he was just glad that he could speak a bit of French again because nobody spoke it that he knew, English is the language that is taught now.

My wrong way didn't turn out too bad!

Then I decided to go to the landmine museum, it wasn't on my map so I
took a tuk tuk. The guy who establised this museum was brought up by
the Khmer Rouge, his parents vanished (killed) when he was very young. Now he spends his time scouring the countryside looking for mines and disarming them. He set up the museum which is run on donations to show people what is happening in Cambodia and around the world. He also looks after children who have been maimed by the mines and whose parents send them away. Some of the stories were absolutely heartbreaking. The museum (which is really just a shack) is founded by donations and the things the children make to sell, it was very moving.

Then it was off to Angkor Wat to watch the sunset. Me and a million other people!! I took a motobike there (just a little one) driven by Sam who is going to be my guide tomorrow. The little I saw of it was amazing, a massive structure at the top of this big hill - how they built it I cannot imagine.

Looking forward to seeing more tomorrow.