Gracy Bee

Cambodia 8 Mar 08

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by GracyBee.
Categories: Places, Travel.

2nd Day - HOT HOT HOT

We found our hotel in Hostelworld.com, and we knew that it is in the central location in Phnom Penh. The National Museum and the Royal Palace is in front of our hotel. We decided to visit the National Museum after our breakfast.

Our breakfast

The architecture of the museum mirrors closely to the Thai temples. For a moment I thought I was in Thailand instead.

 

The National Museum, Phnom Penh

 

The roof

No prize for guessing who!

The museum housed mostly buddha’s statues, which briefly reminded me of Egyptian Museum. Too bad, no photos are allowed. BUT, I took this for fun.

BANG!!

We spent about 1 hr+ in the museum, and just wanted to go back hotel to chill out after that. The weather was juz way tooooooo hot.

^^^^^^

We decided to try out the Vietnamese cuisine in An Nam Restaurant, which according to the map is not far from our hotel. So we walked there. Now then I realise, can never fully rely on their maps, as it is not really 100% accurate. Some of the pictures took along the way.

Baby

Don’t know who this is…

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After a long walk, we managed to find the restaurant. We ordered a simple chicken noodle soup and dry pork noodle. But this is what we had after our order.

We were puzzled. At first we thought that is our vege salad, but we didn’t order that. We tried mixing a bit of the vege with the sauce. Tasted quite good though.

Then………this is what we get shortly after. Eh? This is what we had ordered. Then wat are the vege for?? The waitress then told us, the vege are meant for the soup noodles, then the sauce meant for the dry noodle….OORH……….understood! ahaha….

Tasted juz like our malay counterpart Mee Soto, very very nice!

Something different…

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After lunch, we walked around the area. We came across the National Monument and then came across the Paragon Shopping Centre. WOAH, also have Paragon! We are dying for air con, and we rushed there..

Didn’t take any pix here. The shopping centre, obviously the latest hype over there, is juz like our shopping centre 10 years ago. We went to the supermarket and bought some necessities like drinking water and fruits.

Baby had to carry the whole box of carton of water back to hotel, but we lost our way while going back. We knew we were around the area, but somehow we are walking in circles. Then we decided to take the tuk tuk to take us back. Ah….it is on the other side of the road, but need to walk in circle to reach there. ALAMAK!!

After resting in hotel *again*, we went out for dinner. We went up to FRIENDS. This is kinda of a charity restaurant. But it is very expensive with their small portion and unusually salty hor fun. But their tom yam is good. Too bad….portion too small.

Tom Yam

Hor Fun

We decided to take short walk around the area. Before we came here, we have told by people to stay indoors by 7pm. Initially we thought the people are too paranoid. But once you were there, you would understand why they say so. By 1830, you can feel the tension. The traffic was horrible with mixture of cars, jeeps, motorbikes, bicycles and tuk tuk. We hurried back after taking a short walk around. Never been glad to be back to hotel.

Town area at 1830

 

 

End of day

Very hot day, felt tired from walking.

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