don't you love the alliteration! since our last entry, we have done very
very little...thankfully we don't have bed sores because we have spent most of our time on hammocks...we went straight from luang prabang to the land of 4000 islands (we picked just one to visit--DON DET)
we stayed at a place called Mr. Man's Magical Moments...and boy was it magical! we stayed in a thatched bungalow on the mekong delta (with 2 well placed hammocks on the balcony to discourage movement)...it is very difficult to leave your bungalow when an amazing australian pastry chef visits you every afternoon with delicious chocolate cake made from scratch (the man crushes his own cocoa beans!)...i became like cartman in south park--"i cannot possibly eat one more bite of its chocolatey goodness...oh wait wait...i'll try!"
life was good in laos but after spending almost a month there (a country that wasn't even part of our original itinerary) we headed onto cambodia...
our first couple of days in cambodia were much like laos except the scenery changed dramatically. we travelled down to the mondulkiri province to a town called sen monorom...it reminded us of our safari in kruger national park (south africa) more than anything we have seen so far in SE asia...the landscape was stunning. vast grasslands speckled with clusters of pinetrees...we stayed in a hut and ate in a treehouse (very rustic). phong earned the right to drive the moped again (my burns are now scarred over--people think i intentionally branded myself since part of the scar looks like claw marks). we drove almost all of the way to his motherland but the road got dodgey (new brit term we picked up).
we also got to ride an elephant to a hidden waterfall...life really is sweet sometimes. and, i finally got to eat a proper breakfast of oatmeal--yes oatmeal with honey, bananas and raisins (three days in a row--it was wonderful). i will never again take for granted the variety of foods that we have in the states--we are spoiled.
now we are in transit to the capital Phnom Penh for a few days (maybe we will find some proper cheese there).
peace out cub scout
lisa and phong
