We are staying at the YWAM (Youth With A Mission) base in Phnom Penh, and as you can see from the dining room, we’re living the high life this month! We all have beds to sleep in, toilets flush without the help of buckets of water, the water supply doesn’t run out, we get great meals for $1, and can take showers EVERY day! The last point I am particularly grateful for since I seem to be perpetually drenched in sweat in this country! The second picture is of a little item we have dubbed Rooster Sauce. We don’t really know that actual name of this delightful sweet and spicy mixture – but it’s become a staple for our meals here. Crystal, perhaps you know what it is??
The first picture here is the Cambodian version of a phone booth. This is great…it is a box with colorful numbers on it that a person sits behind with a cell phone that you borrow and make your phone call…for a small fee of course. The second picture is a taste of Cambodian traffic…the most chaotic I’ve seen so far. Traffic lights are merely a suggestion, even the side of the road you drive on is flexible, and a normal four lane city street easily turns into jam packed 12 lanes of traffic with motos and tuk-tuk’s plowing through the busiest roads I’ve ever seen, and often the sidewalks become overflow lanes when traffic gets really bad!.
This is Cambodian moto transportation at it’s finest – a very common sight every time we venture out into traffic. The first picture illustrates how industrious the Cambodians are in their ability to transport abnormally large quantities of goods on a typical moto. The second picture, it’s hard to tell, but there are in fact 6 people here! This is the record I have seen so far.
This is a tuk-tuk (pronounced “took took”), a motorcycle attached to a carriage sort of thing that comfortably seats 4…we daily pile in 7. It’s our main form of transportation to and from ministry every day, and around town on our days off. It’s a great, easy, cheap way to get around. You can usually bargain the price to, at most $4 to get to most places we travel to in the city.
