Thursday, February 09, 2006
28th January 2006
Early wake up as bus left for airport at 7.30am. We had a smooth flight to Siem Reap arriving there at 10.15am. We headed off to have our photos taken for our 3 day pass to the Angkor complex. After checking into our hotel we set off into town to have lunch at the Red Piano resteraunt.(Made famous by Angelina Jollie, who frequents there when in town).
After lunch we bought a few things from the markets including our Cambodian flag and walked back to our hotel. It was a long hot walk so on our return we showered and headed for the pool where we had a swim, a drink and a chat with the others. Very relaxing.
We set off that night for a cello concert by a swiss doctor at the childrens hospital to raise money, blood and awareness. We learnt that the W.H.O. and UNICEF recommend treating people to their economic standard. They have told the doctors here that they should not run all the tests to check for HIV, Hepatitis etc in the blood donations as it is too expensive. The Swiss doctor who is only one of 2 foriegners working at the childrens hospitals (there are 4 in Cambodia) asked for blook from the young, money from the old and both from those in the middle. Unfortunately both David and I donated before we left home so were unable to donate blood. They are in desperate need of blood as there are many cases of Heameragic dengui fever.
After the concert we went to dinner at an Indian resteraunt with Kelli. We had Thali where you get small amounts of a number of dishes . It was huge and we were too full to stay out and party with the others so headed back to the hotel. We had a few black outs again but they didn't last long as their generator seemed to kick in pretty quickly.
