How not to get bored in PP
- Toni
- 20. März 2019
- 2 Min. Lesezeit
Aktualisiert: 23. März 2019
What to do at daytime, to escape the dorm of horror? Well, there´s plenty of nice Temples to visit, if you´re not tired by them by now. I stayed close to the river, and I really enjoyed just going there for a quick walk 😊 The central market of PP is not really worth it, unless you´re into organized chaos, plus the touri prices are reeeally high there. However, there´s smaller street markets everywhere, which are way nicer plus not that busy – they´re selling everything from food and kitchen tools over clothes and shoes to shampoo and make-up. Didn´t buy anything there (but Ice Cream bc food is love!), but it´s still truly interesting to experience that kinda culture shock. (be prepared to see the slaughter of fish, all parts of animals imaginable, undefinable goods and rotten eggs – I ws dying there). Since I was missing Egypt and my so loved Arab culture, me and a friend decided one day to walk to a Mosque close to our place. We didn´t make it the first day, because we got suuuper distracted by the other nice buildings around us! For example the Wat Ounalom Temple. It´s a huge complex with the main temple at it´s center, but there´s three other beautiful buildings worth to see next to it. If you´re into golden houses of course, because everythings golden here :D However, the next day we tried to get to the Muslim Temple, we got distracted by the next Buddhist one – Wat Phnom. You have to pay an entry fee of 1$, but that´s SO worth it! It´s inside the most beautiful park I´ve seen in my whole life with loads of different plants, playing dogs and gorgeous paths. The Temple itself isn´t even that interesting (looks like any other temple) but that SURROUNDING! Damn. Another place that all of a sudden got more interesting than the mosque was one of the highest buildings in town. I just saw it and randomly were like “Eyoo let´s get up there and take some pics!” Turned out to be a mall and the most expensive hotel in PP (324$ a night for a double room – not quite my budget) and I was SO lost there! Barefoot. Harems pants. Crop top. Yeah I get it, I´m the exotic bird between all them chick suits :D Anyway, the view definitively was worth acting out of place, because we could literally see above the whole city! And the food there wasn´t as expensive as the rooms, so we didn´t even have to starve to death ^^ After finishing being stared at, we FINALLY went to the Al-Serkal mosque. Felt like a throw back to Cairo, even though the mosque here was almost prettier than the once I visited in Egypt… The weird thing was that no one told me to cover up, but I´m not gonna complain about that :D To sum it up, there´s soooo many things to see and to do in Phnom Penh, that you can easily spend a week there without getting bored. Phnom Penh is beautiful even though it´s super dirty - but since I was the only one barefoot, I guess I was the only one who got affected by it:D
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