After a nine hour transit at LCCT in KL we finally made it to Phnom Penh. The place looks amazing, lots has changed since we were here last – 6 years ago.
Time for bed, can hardly keep my eyes open. Proper update tomorrow!
Here we go again…
Drinking caffeinated drinks at Melbourne airport on Friday night, here we go again. Our destination the kingdom of the Khmers. We are off with our friends Bao and Amy for 10 days of mad mini bus rides around Cambodia. We are privileged to be visiting Amy’s family in Kampontom and seeing some of Cambodia’s other wonders. Then on to China for 3.5 weeks.
We were pretty set to go until Phil lost her phone and her head phones! 2 hours of turning the house upside down, the phone turned up in a pile of dirty clothes and the head phones in Phil shoes. Her great plan not to forget the headphones! It worked 🙂
Kissing family goodbye, we headed off. The AirAsia check in queue provided entertainment for 40 minutes, queue jumpers and grumpy check in staff, passengers with the wrong details on their itinerary. Now we wait in an uncomfortable lounge for 9 hours of uncomfortable flying then 9 hours of uncomfortable layover for another 5 hour flight. It is going to be great because we are on holidays.
‘interesting bloke, crap tea’
Lijuang seems like months ago,… but I guess I best start this post there.
We headed out to a little village called Baisha, on the outskirts of Lijuang city. It is famous for little other than being a traditional Naxi village… and also the home to Dr Ho from the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Chinese Herbal Medicine Clinic.
We were gently greeted in the street by a sweet old man, dressed in a white lab coat with perfect Chinese/Oxford English accent – “Hello, me, Dr Ho.”