On New Year’s Day, my family and I flew from Thailand to Cambodia for a whirlwind tour of Angkor Wat and its environs. Our alloted two days would soon stretch to four, thanks to unforeseen visa issues, but that’s a story for another time; for now, five snapshots from our first day in Siem Reap:
1. Tuk Tuks.
We became accustomed to traveling by these motorized rickshaw cabs in Thailand, but that did little to prepare us for the hard-sell tactics of Siem Reap’s persistent, tourist-targeting taxi drivers. They lined the streets, waiting for someone to acquiesce to a ride; we quickly learned to say, “no, thank you” in Khmer.
