Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville

Can't upload the pics from the new camera yet, so these must do for now.

KL - what a great city!! After laid back Adelaide we were stunned of this modern, wealthy, international, clean, impressing and nightlife-loving city!! Had a great night out in bar streets crowded with young people dressed up for Halloween, of all nationalities, but all united in a great mood & atmosphere!!

Phnom Penh - I can't exactly say what we expected, some sort of transit city with a lot of poverty probably - was even a bigger and what a positive surprise!! Beautiful temples, a very nice and welcoming riverside with lots of great bars and restaurant and old French colonial buildings, cheap drinks and FANTASTIC Khmer food!! The national dish (foto) - "AMOK"! :-) Wonderful fish steamed in a banana leaf in coconut milk with chili, lemongras and a tiny bit of anis, absolutely delicious. Costs: about 3 Dollars.
We also found colourful markets, the most wonderful smells of street kitchens, an atmospheric and alternative life at the lake side, interesting museums (and of course heavy information about Cambodia's history and the Khmer Rouge's regime), peace at the beautiful King's Palace, free Wifi (WLAN) in our guesthouse room and the most wonderful, friendly people with the most beautiful smile ever.
Phnom Pehn, the "Pearl of Asia", it truly is.

Kein Spanferkel ;-)

Typical Street in Phnom Penh.

Oh and Hilary Clinton drove past us on her visit to Phnom Penh on Monday, the whole street got closed for her. :-)

More fotos will possibly follow, if I can get that 8GB-Chip connected...

Holger gets a haircut!

Huge colourful Gecko in our Guesthouse in Sihanoukville.

The beach at Sihanoukville - quite fun and definitely very beautiful, but a bit of Ballermann or Koh Pa Ngan...


You can get your nails done while someone opens fresh lobster for you and somebody else gives you a neck massage - all together for less than 10 US-Dollars. Which by the way is the normal currency here, although you will get the change in Cambodian Riel.

Snorkeling tour to Bamboo Island!



Leave your shoes and just - stay.

But we are heading on to Kampot tomorrow and possibly to Vietnam after that! YAY!

Ein paar Tage bleiben wir, wo der Pfeffer waechst. ;-)