Holiday Day 4 (29.10.09)

This day was another early waking up. The luggage was reassembled and our tired bodies hurried towards the bus station.
After waiting another few minutes, we boarded it and thus entered upon one of the most disagreeable bus trips I've made so far.
We were seated in the back row together with three other adults and three children. Unfortunately, all of them seemed to have trouble stomaching the trip. Three of them (a man, a woman and her daughter) frequently emtpied the contents of their interiors into plastic bags, where they were conserved for the rest of the trip. This did not contribute to the olfactory enjoyment of the journey. The most repulsive thing, however, occurred when an unfortunate girl sleeping on the ground was covered by the contents of a breaking plastic bag placed above her head. All this did quite spoil our appetite. Not even the filled turtles offered at a restaurant where we had a break could change tempt us.
Finally in Siem Reap, we were able to evade the attacking tuktuk drivers by having Michael, another ww-volunteer, pick us up on his moto. The result was another test as to how much can actually be transported on a single vehicle. We managed to fit onto it with three persons, two trekking-backpacks, two daypacks and a guitar. The rest of the day was largely uneventful. We relaxed a bit in the hammocks at the boys' house, got to know some more ww-volunteers in Siem Reap, had some ice cream, transferred our luggage to the girls' house, had a look at the bar scene of Siem Reap and finally went to bed.

Note: Siem Reap is the town with the highest ww-volunteer density in Cambodia, with 6 people placed here. There is an equal distribution of
gender which resulted in the boys occupying one house and the girls another. The town is also witness to Cambodia's first ww-internal love relationship.