6 March, 2013

Siem Riep at night

Siem Reip at night was really quite interesting, the tourist industry was certainly making an imprint on the local businesses, the night life consisted of whole streets bustling with restaurants all trying to pull the customers in the door, also included was the heightened prices simply just for being in the area, there was a huge amount of shops selling pretty much anything you wanted to buy.  The one thing i found strange were the shops offering spa baths with an assortment of fish based in a tank. It seems that you put your feet in there and the fish have a nibble at all your dead skin on your feet. there was an abundance of people giving extremely cheap massages as well as local market areas where you could buy the whole variety of local made products, even though most were made in Vietnam. As too an abundance of took took drivers offering you a ride every second, the took-tooks here were really comfortable and large with enough room to spread out. we found this quite comfortable when we went to Angkor Wat in one of the evenings. The food experience was really great, the guest house we stayed at had the best food we have had at such small prices. The local people i found to be really friendly and warm, they wanted to start conversation with you and it wasn’t always just to try and sell you something.

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