{"id":1013,"date":"2014-03-06T04:23:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2014-03-06T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T13:40:08","slug":"cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/06\/cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"

We explored some more ruins today that were very nice, but having seen Angkor Wat they were anticlimactic.<\/p>\n

I thought instead of discussing the ruins I would show a little about life in “modern” Cambodia.<\/p>\n

The only form of transportation we have used in the country are tuktuks<\/a>. Tuktuk is a somewhat generic word for simple forms of transport in many third world countries from Africa through Asia, usually serving the function of a taxi. In Cambodia they take the form of a 2-wheeled cart pulled by a small motorcycle, usually about 100cc. Top speed is about 20 miles per hour (measured by my GPS app). The occupants are almost exclusively tourists. <\/p>\n

\"tuktuk\"
\nHere Angela and Da Quan are getting into their tuktuk. Gisele and I rode another one. <\/p>\n

\"gas\"
\nHere are a couple of gas stations by the road, with an attendant standing by. <\/p>\n

\"Attendant\"
\nThe attendant is adding a liter of gas to our tuktuk.<\/p>\n

We drove for over an hour through the countryside today and saw lots of rural scenes.<\/p>\n

\"\"Here is a typical house on stilts.<\/p>\n

We are all really enjoying the fresh tropical fruits, including mangos, mangosteens, and many others I don’t know the names of. It’s common to get a fresh coconut for the drink with the meal. They cost about a dollar, and the milk (about a pint) is fresh, clear and sweet. Sometimes after drinking the milk we have them cut open so we can spoon out the soft flesh coating the inside. Nothing like the coconut we can get in the US. <\/p>\n

\"coconut\"
\nThis is my coconut, and across the table Angela is scooping out the flesh of hers. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow we briefly visit a museum about Angkor, and then catch an early afternoon flight back to Saigon (HCM City). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We explored some more ruins today that were very nice, but having seen Angkor Wat they were anticlimactic. I thought instead of discussing the ruins I would show a little about life in “modern” Cambodia. The only form of transportation we have used in the country are tuktuks. Tuktuk is a somewhat generic word for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}