The view from my window, towards the market.
I arrived safely in Phnom Penh yesterday afternoon. I consider it a good omen that I did not leave my ATM card at the airport as I recently did in both Indonesia and Peru.
I've never been to Cambodia before so everything is new and exciting. I woke up at 6:30am and went straight to Phsar Kandal, the market I am staying next to and had a local breakfast--a big place of rice, chicken and pickled cucumbers.
Today as I wandered sweatily through town looking for a plug adapter I saw a man selling pottery off a wagon pulled by two cows (or some large beast--I once famously thought a cow was a dog, but I was 4), there's sugarcane being juiced outside my door and I found a bucket of skinned, but still kicking, frogs down the street.
It feels like a vibrant, living city and one that I am happy to be in. Once I get a kitchen and some air-conditioning, I'll be set.
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