Kingdom of Cambodia-Mel

I am behind Darryl in the usual blog writing, probably because most of the time I am on the Internet I am searching for cheap accommodations or activities and Darryl does a really good job of providing everyone with our updates.
However it is never to late so here are my thoughts on Cambodia....

what can I say, I have a love, love, hate relationship with this country.
Meaning I really did love this country, however at times the aggressive attitude of some drivers and children pushed my levels of patience.
To get into Cambodia, yes we took the scam bus from Bangkok, known to most lonely planet readers and Yes we KNEW we were taking the scam bus. Scam bus means they basically gouge you for whatever extra money they can, lie to you and give you a "free" tuk tuk ride to their friend's guesthouse. To us, since we knew what was going on, we excepted it and moved on, (unlike some other people on the scam bus who stayed angry for days and some people who had no idea it was a scam) along the way we meet 2 other Canadians from the Guelph and Toronto area with whom we became very close with.
We also had the adventure of walking over the border between Thailand and Cambodia, along the way you pass through "no man's land". We thought it was pretty cool and it helped lighten our mood.
We did stay at the "suggested" guesthouse, but hey it was cheap and we didn't mind it.
Siem Reap is a small place with a lot of character, we spent a day at the temples of Angkor, went to a floating village, had our feet massaged by fish, bought matching tshirts (ya thats right all 4 of us, Same Same but Different) spent a night drinking cheap buckets and getting free shirts out of it and all in all had an amazing time.
A couple of days later we went to Phnom Penh, the capital city. Here we visited the Genocide museum and killing fields. Overall a very educational and sad day for all of us, so we drowned our sorrows at an all night club in the city.
After a week in Cambodia, it was team Canada's time to spilt; now a team of 6 Darryl and I would soon again be a team of 2, sad for us all however since we all had different itineraries it had to be done. We would run into Hoang and Tom though in Vietnam lunch before they had to leave for Hoang's grandma's place near Saigon.