Lots of surprises. Right at the border from Vietnam there are about 10 big beautiful Las Vegas style hotel-casinos. One was named Las Vegas. The countryside shows the agrarian economy with rice fields and cattle. There was so much water everywhere – houses standing in water, cattle grazing in water, people walking in mud… We don’t know if it’s always this way or only during the rainy season. Their rainy season is long and it rains a lot. In Phnom Penh more people speak understandable English than in Saigon, not to mention other places in Vietnam where you can’t communicate at all. Everywhere we went, people were kind and helpful, and even when you refused to buy anything from them, they joked and smiled. The cities (we only visited 2) are nice. Wide streets and nowhere near as crowded as Saigon. Long distance busses stop for food about every 2 hours even though people have bags of food when they get on the bus.
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