Met my tour group in Bangkok on Sunday, everybody's lovely and mostly Australian so the accent is starting to run off on me!! I've had my first proper Thai green curry and done a bit of market wandering down khao San road! The next day we got a 9 hour bus ride to Cambodia. When you cross the border into Cambodia you immediately see the poverty difference between here and Thailand yet they basically have a magaluf strip called Pub Street in Siem Reap!! We went clubbing at a place called Angkor what?! And it literally could have been anywhere in the world, it's so bizarre!! Before going to the club we went to a Cambodian circus which was amazing, it depicted the Khmer Rouge period and yet despite that the actors and performers had such good humour and got everybody dancing and clapping, it's so cool how even though were in a totally different country and language everybody laughs at the same things! On our second day in Cambodia my roommate cut her finger on a rusty nail on one of the toilets and hadn't got a tetanus vaccination so our guide Channa (who is incredible, she's a local siem reap woman who is hilarious and so cute, she's absolutely tiny) took us to the Royal Angkor Hospital. The hospital was immaculate, absolutely empty and spotless with nurses who seemed more like dolls with perfect hair, make up and uniforms, there wasn't a single other patient in there so we asked Channa why. She explained this is the private hospital for rich and tourists and that locals are too poor to ever go there, they had to rely on shoddy public hospitals yet still have to pay for any treatment, she said in her 28 years of life she's been there 4 times and once when her father past away, she's said the nurses are nasty and don't have proper training and that many people die rather than visit these hospitals. It's so sad how this perfect, clean hospital cost so much to build and doesn't even treat the local people. So far it seems the authorities and everything is still very corrupt and very seedy in Cambodia and yet the people are SO friendly and funny. They mainly practice Buddhism and Channa told us a little story that sums up Buddhism which I thought was really cute so I'll share it..."a man had a bird and wanted to kill it to eat and feed his family, he met a man who would later become Buddha who said set the bird free and kill me instead, the man said but you're bigger and a man and Buddha said if I cut off my flesh I would weigh the same as the bird so who do you choose... The idea is that every life no matter how small or big is just as important and you shouldn't harm... I think now if I was gonna have a religion it would be Buddhism it's so peaceful and kind. Anyway that's a catch up so far!