Tomorrow Never Comes...

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So, Penny and I have been kicking around Vientiane for the past 8 days, excitedly awaiting the grand skydive-fireworks-parades-a'-plenty party celebrating 450 years as the nation's capitol. We thought it was supposed to start on the 15th; no wait, that person says the 16th; oh, this other dude's pretty sure it's the 17th.

This is pretty typical of Lao, so as of yesterday, we have purchased bus tickets down to the waaaaaaaaaaaaay south to a place called Si Phan Don (means "four thousand islands"). That's a picture of it above, and from what I hear, that pretty much sums it up. Looking forward to a few days curled up in a hammock with a good book and a box of wine (zip it - don't wanna hear it!) before we cross the border and tackle Cambodia and our journey to Angkor Wat.

Cambodia is a real shit hole - - we've received warnings not to carry bag straps across our torsos because when the thieves on motorbikes come by to slash the bag, they may accidentally slash us as well. Sounds charming, don't it? This better be one hell of a wat!!!!

Angkor Wat looks like this:



And this:



It's where they filmed Laura Croft: Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie. She is both super-mega-hot and she does all her own stunts, so if the actual wat's a bust, there's always that to fall back on!

Last time I was in Cambodia, it was total anarchy...I had the continual uneasy feeling that I might be stabbed at any moment as a matter of course. It's hard for a country to keep it together when everyone with any sort of education has been tortured and killed.
Stupid Pol Pot.

Pol Pot looked like this:




And he did really horrible things to hundreds of thousands of people who now look like this:


Asshole.




Alrighty then - on that note, I'm off to the happy-happy-joy-joy islands!
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love,
jingles