Sunday, July 17, 2011

Serious liability in America-Spelunking(sp?)

So yesterday we were also gonna go to this cave pretty close to town, but our khmae friends in the guesthouse said it was too dark......definitely a good decision. I'll explain in a little bit. We slept in in the morning till about 8 and then bought our tickets to kampong saom for 11. The cave is only about 15 km away so we had a quick breakfast and headed off. When we got there, some little khmae kids were there asking us if we wanted guides. We said no, thinking we would just look by ourselves. They of course didn't listen and proceded to take us through the cave. definitely a good thing. This cave would have been a serious liability in America, hence the title. It was super dark and we were climbing through holes we could barely get through and up faces of rock that we should have used a rope. We originally thought it was only gonna take like 15-30 min to go in and out, but we didn't know that we were gonna go completely through the cave and out the other side of the mountain. It was crazy but way sweet. We were super glad we went and we made it back with about 5 min to spare!


All our guides


They took us through some crazy stuff





We made it out of the cave and had to hack our way through back around to the front





Cambodia is one of the most beautiful places ever!







We made it to the bus, and we were off to the beach in kampong saom. After some more conversations with khmaes, Kory and I decided there are certain things that must be talked about within the first 30 seconds of a khmae meeting us.
us- hello
them- woah! you speak khmae really clearly
us- oh thank you
them-how long have you lived in cambodia?
us - 2 years (followed almost immediately by....)
them - you should have a cambodian wife (eventually I started telling them I already had a gf so they wouldn't pursue the subject further.
them- do you know John Cena.(they love watching WWE..to them its like 2 ripped giants fighting)

yup that about sums it up. there are other things that come up but thats what I can think of right now. Excited for the beach!!!

1 comment:

  1. I hate you guys. I have never been so jealous of anything in my whole life. With love, Justin

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