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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Siem Reap, Cambodia by TravelPod blogger Sirrocko711 titled “Day 70, Pt.1: Camera Vs. Monsoon @ Angkor Thom” Sirrocko711′s travel blog entry: “Following a breakfast buffet of unlimited cereal, toast, fruit, and tea, we headed off to the nearest bicycle renter & ATM, both of which were conveniently next door to one another. The ATM was difficult to find, being somewhere inside Siem Reap’s indoor mall, tiny by our standards but a mall nonetheless and a symbol of the main wealth difference between Nepal & Cambodia. Unlike Nepal, there are visible signs of foreign investment here and big money floating around (whereas it was pretty clear nobody had money in Nepal.) Also, as with any Western country the mall was a clear favorite hangout spot of all the local school-aged kids, who I guess were either off school that day or didn’t go to begin with. Jeff asked around and after some sign language, misunderstanding, and broken English was able to find the ATM on the 3rd floor. “How do you know it’s up there?” “See the reflection in that glass?” (Jeff points to a barely decipherable reflection of an ATM sign on a random obscure piece of plexiglass far above us) Jeff was bitten by a radioactive spider whilst in Taiwan and was instilled with superhuman eyesight. In Pokhara I rented the world’s crappiest bike. The bikes here were the world’s second crappiest but got the job done, though Jeff’s had a working bike bell & mine didn’t …
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