December 16
Well everything has to come to an end and today is the end of Siem Reap. We accomplished a lot of things, including three temples, which we hadn’t seen before, meeting and hiring an on-the-ground administrator, Saltean. Signed up one more boy for school, met with some really nice people doing some great work for kids and families in Cambodia. Chris and Debbie doing the thing with the villages and the water filters, Tanya and Rem with Green Gecko, taking the street kids off the street for short times anyway. And Steve who has done a photographic project that is being displayed in the city and makes money for the street kids and gets them away from begging. Many good things going on in Siem Reap.
We are very happy to have found an administrator here in Siem Reap who is well known by the people we respect to be an honest and upright guy. He is 29 years old, married, and has one child. We are also sponsoring
Also had a chance to see the new private, very large, new museum, which will become a center post of cultural antiquities in this city. The building is huge and we just wonder how they are going to fill it and with what. Most of the artifacts have been stored in the National Museum in Phnom Penh, which is very run down and not very nice. They even charge you one dollar for taking a picture of their garden. After you take the picture of course. I’m sure the money goes into the guard’s pocket. Not the greatest interaction with the tourist. Sure turned me off.
Siem Reap has really cleaned it self up and is much nicer than Phnom Penh by far. I have no intention to go back to PP for any reason.
Anyway on the airport this morning at 9am for a 11:35 flight to Kuala Lumpur and meeting Aek. He had an 8-hour bus ride from his home to KL and then after arriving at 4 am, he has to wait until 2:30 pm until we arrive. We will have two hours if our flight is on time and this airline makes you go through all the immigration and pickup up your bags and then go back the check-in counter again and go through the board process all over again. This way they get the luggage overage charge again. Well done but a pain in the ass and very expensive. We do have heavy bags and they get us every time. We arrive in Bali at 9:40pm and hopefully the hotel will have a big enough transport for four bodies and 10 pieces of luggage.
Am planning of having a class on PhotoShop, general photography, and FrontPage – a website creator, and shoot three models. Don’t know how much will be accomplished in such a short time but I will do my best and also try to get in some much needed rest. Since I did the touring last time, I don’t have that to take time so Allen and Hip will do that. Looking forward to going to the Lomponang Island again and spending the night. Very beautiful place just one hour off the coast of Bali.
Gede, my friend and guide will take Allen and Hip to see the sites and that should free me enough to attempt some classes.
We are very happy to have found
Well everything has to come to an end and today is the end of Siem Reap. We accomplished a lot of things, including three temples, which we hadn’t seen before, meeting and hiring an on-the-ground administrator, Saltean. Signed up one more boy for school, met with some really nice people doing some great work for kids and families in Cambodia. Chris and Debbie doing the thing with the villages and the water filters, Tanya and Rem with Green Gecko, taking the street kids off the street for short times anyway. And Steve who has done a photographic project that is being displayed in the city and makes money for the street kids and gets them away from begging. Many good things going on in Siem Reap.
We are very happy to have found an administrator here in Siem Reap who is well known by the people we respect to be an honest and upright guy. He is 29 years old, married, and has one child. We are also sponsoring
Also had a chance to see the new private, very large, new museum, which will become a center post of cultural antiquities in this city. The building is huge and we just wonder how they are going to fill it and with what. Most of the artifacts have been stored in the National Museum in Phnom Penh, which is very run down and not very nice. They even charge you one dollar for taking a picture of their garden. After you take the picture of course. I’m sure the money goes into the guard’s pocket. Not the greatest interaction with the tourist. Sure turned me off.
Siem Reap has really cleaned it self up and is much nicer than Phnom Penh by far. I have no intention to go back to PP for any reason.
Anyway on the airport this morning at 9am for a 11:35 flight to Kuala Lumpur and meeting Aek. He had an 8-hour bus ride from his home to KL and then after arriving at 4 am, he has to wait until 2:30 pm until we arrive. We will have two hours if our flight is on time and this airline makes you go through all the immigration and pickup up your bags and then go back the check-in counter again and go through the board process all over again. This way they get the luggage overage charge again. Well done but a pain in the ass and very expensive. We do have heavy bags and they get us every time. We arrive in Bali at 9:40pm and hopefully the hotel will have a big enough transport for four bodies and 10 pieces of luggage.
Am planning of having a class on PhotoShop, general photography, and FrontPage – a website creator, and shoot three models. Don’t know how much will be accomplished in such a short time but I will do my best and also try to get in some much needed rest. Since I did the touring last time, I don’t have that to take time so Allen and Hip will do that. Looking forward to going to the Lomponang Island again and spending the night. Very beautiful place just one hour off the coast of Bali.
Gede, my friend and guide will take Allen and Hip to see the sites and that should free me enough to attempt some classes.
We are very happy to have found
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