Cambodia

After 3 days travelling we've finally arrived in Cambodia! Our flights have all gone well so far, and we are now settling into our basic but comfortable room here in Golden Gate Hotel Phnom Penh. Its mid 30's here in Cambodia and unfortunately our air con isnt working, should be interesting.

There is definately a distinct difference between Thailand and Cambodia on first impressions. Poverty is much more obvious here and we both noticed how solemn people in Cambodia look in comparrison to Thailand which is called the Land of smiles. We arrived in Thailand last night and headed to a hotel there to spend the night before our flight here. We couldnt get to sleep because of the time difference so ended up ordering room service and playing "Shed" till the early hours.....we slept in! Ooops. We were meant to leave the hotel at 1pm and woke up at 12.45!!! You can take the Wylie's worldwide but we'll still be the same old Wylie's.

While some things are different, some things are obviously the same, Buddhism is followed by the many. Shrines and statues are on every corner and in every shop. This is one of the statues in the Thai airport. Buddhist monks are everywhere, I even saw one on the back of a moped today on the way to the hotel, with a massive TV under his arm.....not sure what that was about! Pray for the people in both countries that God would open their eyes, but also pray for ourselves at the same time that we would be as open about our own faith which we seem to cower away from doing when at home.

Tomorrow we are going to see the Killing fields. We hope to gain a better picture about what the people here have gone through and how it effects them in the present day before starting work at the "daughters" project on Wednesday.