Swollen ankles and one dollar bills

No idea what this country is doing to my ankles. But I basically don't have them anymore. Terrifying truly! Probably just water retention but come on! Cut a girl a break. :P

Our bus ride from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh was pretty wild. Tearing down a rural highway (ie: dirt road) at breakneck speed, throwing traffic laws to the wind. I figure he must have been going 120-130 km/h. Which makes me wonder what the heck the 40 posted as the speed limit was supposed to be for.

But I loved that bus. It had a TV that played Mr. Bean, Cambodian kareoke, and some Hong Kong kung fu flick I've never heard off, but which amused us greatly with our impromtu translations. We figured it was actually a love story between the two male protagonists!

Phnom Penh is absolute crazy! This city is massive and chaotic. Blows my mind to think that 60% of the population is under 30. 60%! And it seems like they're all in this city. Somehow doesn't seem to have the rep that Bangkok does, but it isn't hard to see where it's getting it's inspiration.

In other musings: This country seems to run on $1 US bills. I'm not kidding. You go to the ATM and it spits out US cash. Cambodian riel are only used as change. (4000 riel = 1 US dollar, so 2000 riel = 50 cents etc). But everything costs somewhere between 50 cents and 4 dollars. Sooo... the dollar is the thing. Least it makes it easy to budget!