So after Vang
Vieng we headed to the capital city of Laos,
Vientene. Which was a total bust. After
VV,
Vientene was a freaking boar. Matt
Lauer lied to me. Where he should have went on the
Today show was
VV... but i guess a lot of young hippies floating down the river doing drugs
doesn't make for great
tv for people that get up early enough to watch the Today show. The town has some cool french stuff... like a lot of french buildings and a street that looks like the Champs
Elysse and a really big arch thing like the Arch
de Triumph (the US gave a lot of cement to Laos to build a new airport... so instead they built this big ass arch thing... i
don't know). We flew out to
Siem Riep in Cambodia which is the tourist hub for Angkor Wat. Ends up that Cambodia is freaking expensive (
ok... that is just going by my cheap ass SE Asian standards). They use the US dollar as their currency and that means that you get screwed. They only use the paper money... so a bottle of water costs 1 dollar.. i much prefer my 10-15 cent bottle of water. And did i mention that Cambodia is hot as balls and just as sweaty. So we flew into Cambodia at around 10am and decided that we should check out AW that day.... and a 3 day pass costs $40 US. But whatever... its Angkor
wat. So we go see the main temples and about pass out because its so hot... like a sweaty jungle type hot! But the temples were out of this world.
They were so freaking incredible... they had so much detail and are just so old. They are suppose to have the most impressive
Bas Reliefs in the world. I
dont know what those are but it sounds pretty impressive (
im not into art at all but i think a
bas relief is like a mural carved into the wall or something like that). The next temple that we saw was
Banyon... and it is so cool. There are all these faces carved everywhere into it (the picture of me sitting in the window has me looking at one of the faces). Leading up to the temple is a big moat with a bridge and on either side of the bridge there are carving of stone that depict the Hindu view of creationism.... like 52 gods and 52 demons churning a sea of milk to create mankind. Kinda cool to see the Hindu influence in a place that is now
predominately Buddhist. My favorite temple was Ta
Phrom.... this is where they filmed Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie and it is awesome. It is supposedly still in the same condition that it was discovered in during the early 20
th century. Angkor
wat was huge and then taken back by the jungle and then not discovered until recent history... to this day most of the archeology of Angkor is unknown because there still
hasn't been detailed research on the area. So this temple has crazy big trees growing out of the walls and moss covering everything... kinda creepy because it looks like an old abandoned temple that no one knows about (see picture of me and
vida at the temple).
That night i decided to wash my clothes in the sink... bad idea in Cambodia. It is so hot and humid that you cant dry anything. I thought that my clothes were going to mold before they dried. And our room only had a fan (i say that but i have yet to stay in an AC room that i paid for...
im cheap like that... but i would have given my left nut for some AC in Cambodia..
that's how hot is was). And then our room smelled all musky and moldy from all my wet clothes. AND... Cambodia is also really dusty... they really
don't have any paved roads (beside the touristy roads) instead they have this red dirt stuff that gets everywhere (including your wet clothes) so everyone driving wears face masks.
Cambodia was totally worth it because Angkor
wat is amazing..... even worth the $25 US dollars that they make you pay to leave the country... seriously who does that. But now I am on the cool beach and plan to do some sea kayaking tomorrow to the
karst formations out in the oceans and explore some sea caves.
the smell of it i think that sucker had a back load of about two weeks of rank ass raw sewage. Everyone on the back of the bus was gagging.... Vida tied a bandanna around her face with my green apple hand sanitizer on it to filter out the shit smell. The people at the back of the bus tried hanging blankets over the stairway to the shitter to block some of the smell (might have helped a little). Then the dude across from us started toking a joint.... the first time that i have actually been happy that someone was smoking on a bus.... it was the closest thing to incense or air freshener that we had... but soon enough the shit smell returned and stayed with us for the rest of the 13 hour VIP bus ride. So i decide to pop a few Dramamine to just sleep out the smell. So the Dramamine made me really sleepy. So tired that i ended up taking a big yawn and sucked the toxic poop fumes down my lungs and I 
swear to you that i thought i could actually taste the shit. And then the Dramamine kicked it and next thing you know we are rolling into BK.
So question.... what would you get if you took Grandma Bobbie, made her into a tranny and slapped a crown and an aqua dress on her??? Any guesses?? Yeah... the green dress above is also packing some heat.
So apparently the monsoon season started early this year. LUCKY ME! So we decided to head to the Andaman coast ... which is the west coast of Thailand for you geography buffs. And is has poured down rain everyday. A guy that i met that lives here said that it has rained at least once a day for the past 3 weeks. That being said.... it is still freaking beautiful... i am just enjoying the beauty while i am soaking wet. I found out that Disney is a fraud.... The movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" with Johnny Depp wasn't filmed in the Caribbean at all..... it was filmed right here at the beach that i went today. How awesome is that??? I totally felt like a pirate all day today. It was a total throw back to the days when my aunt wanted to buy one of those little kid dog collar things so i wouldn't run off to any character i saw at Disney land... seriously giddy.
rocks jutting out of the ocean in crystal blue/green looking water with white powdery sand beaches. Vida decided that she didn't really want to do anything.... so I ditched her and did my own thing. Ended up meeting up with some French girls that I met on the bus and we went exploring the island. We ended up going to this cave that has a story to tell. Legend is that a ship carrying an Indian princess crashed off shore of Railay. Her spirit then was left in a local cave (Tham Phra Nang - Holy Princess Cave). So local fisherman come to this cave and throw huge wooden dicks into it (sorry for the language but a fair amount of my family wouldn't know what a large wooden phallus was... so that ones for you Gma) in order to appease the princess' spirit so that she will make the ocean fertile and produce lots of fish. It was freaking hilarious.... some of these suckers were as tall as I am. Don't worry. I got lots of pics... all tasteful... well... at least most of them. And being the DRY season here in Thailand... it poured down rain so we retreated to the only place we knew where to go.... the bar. Ended up drunk and having to take a longtail boat back home in the storm.... but that just adds to the true pirate experience.
Today show was VV... but i guess a lot of young hippies floating down the river doing drugs doesn't make for great tv for people that get up early enough to watch the Today show. The town has some cool french stuff... like a lot of french buildings and a street that looks like the Champs Elysse and a really big arch thing like the Arch de Triumph (the US gave a lot of cement to Laos to build a new airport... so instead they built this big ass arch thing... i don't know). We flew out to Siem Riep in Cambodia which is the tourist hub for Angkor Wat. Ends up that Cambodia is freaking expensive (ok... that is just going by my cheap ass SE Asian standards). They use the US dollar as their currency and that means that you get screwed. They only use the paper money... so a bottle of water costs 1 dollar.. i much prefer my 10-15 cent bottle of water. And did i mention that Cambodia is hot as balls and just as sweaty. So we flew into Cambodia at around 10am and decided that we should check out AW that day.... and a 3 day pass costs $40 US. But whatever... its Angkor wat. So we go see the main temples and about pass out because its so hot... like a sweaty jungle type hot! But the temples were out of this world. 
They were so freaking incredible... they had so much detail and are just so old. They are suppose to have the most impressive Bas Reliefs in the world. I dont know what those are but it sounds pretty impressive (im not into art at all but i think a bas relief is like a mural carved into the wall or something like that). The next temple that we saw was Banyon... and it is so cool. There are all these faces carved everywhere into it (the picture of me sitting in the window has me looking at one of the faces). Leading up to the temple is a big moat with a bridge and on either side of the bridge there are carving of stone that depict the Hindu view of creationism.... like 52 gods and 52 demons churning a sea of milk to create mankind. Kinda cool to see the Hindu influence in a place that is now predominately Buddhist. My favorite temple was Ta Phrom.... this is where they filmed Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie and it is awesome. It is supposedly still in the same condition that it was discovered in during the early 20th century. Angkor wat was huge and then taken back by the jungle and then not discovered until recent history... to this day most of the archeology of Angkor is unknown because there still 
hasn't been detailed research on the area. So this temple has crazy big trees growing out of the walls and moss covering everything... kinda creepy because it looks like an old abandoned temple that no one knows about (see picture of me and vida at the temple).
