I will
say straight out that the people in and around Siem Reap are the most
aggressive hawkers of their
goods and services of anyplace I've visited in the entire world, bar none.
Tourists
are pursued almost non-stop while outside the temples of Angkor Wat.
It is incessant and shrill and a real pain in the ass. All this is only made
worse by the fact that the Cambodian government has seen fit to outlaw the
rental
of motorbikes to foreigners and by so doing puts every traveler at the mercy
of the moto and tuk tuk drivers, which are every bit as incessant at trying to
sell their services as every other merchant in Siem Reap.
This is one of the markets in Siem Reap. Yes, we have
some bananas.
Although there is a controversy over competing museums
in Siem Reap, I did visit the War Museum. A lot of relics from the era of the
Kher Rouge, but they also had some of the latest data on mine victims
throughout the country.
Here's another of Siem Reap's crowded markets. Like so many markets in Asia,
you can find (and smell) almost anything here.
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