Last two days we have been purely enjoying the sun in the city of Sihanouk Ville in the southeast Cambodia. These bright white and non-crowded beaches that this town is full of, are just too perfect to be described. However, we felt a little bit bored of this all “freedom” around us.

Yesterday we rent motorbikes for two days, only for ten dollars, just to explore furter this small town. Besides a nice tanning, now our backbag carries lots of nice memories from the real countryside of Cambodia, and not forgetting a small fisherman village we saw today, where it seemed that no white man has gone before.

The journey goes on, and Im lacking time to write on my blog. However, memories will last long (thanks to notebook from my sorellina) and a more detailed journey report will be posted after these next three weeks, as fast as I get my ass back to Tokyo and/or Helsinki.

Hot and lazy Bangkok turned out to be also hot, but lazier Phnom Pehn, aka ghetto. I have hardly ever seen this kind of place, city centrum with unpaved streets, thousands of beggers and carbage everywhere. However, more shocking thing was today’s excursion to the Killing Fields with thousands of anonymous skulls and the former jail with all the torture equipment back from the seventies. Still somehow mankind just survives, and so do we. Day after tomorrow probably heading for the perfect tanning. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy red street dust!

We are still in Bangkok - our flight deparatures tomorrow. Yesterday we planned to go around Bangkok’s nightlife, but travellers got lazy and didn’t went almost anywhere. However, we found a nice terrace next to our hostell.

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Last night I woke up middle of the night. Again, hot, humid, sweaty… this recent insomnia reminded me about the Apocalypse Now! movie’s first scene. Silent room, here middle of nowhere. And then, like a baby, falling a sleep.

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We spent our last day in Bangkok in one required cultural sight, Jim Thompson’s home museum. This great New York based architect moved to Thailand after the WWII. Besides establishing a world famous silk export company, he managed to create a beautiful house, fusioning styles all over the Asia. Besides calculating my possibilities to find my way to live in future in some nice and warm country (in some nice villa), I was enjoying today about the fact that nob0dy could reach me as they wish. Walking there, under the burning sun without my mobilephone… I really recommend to you all!

Today we also found a rather interesting legislation in Thailand. Restaurants and stores are not allowed to sell any alcoholic beverages between 2pm and 5pm. Just wondering WHY? This afternoon we also went to a pharmacy. Just a small sight to the shelve reveiled a skin whitening product - made in Finland. That wont suprise me that much, but when the box, otherwise written in English had the company’s slogan in Finnish, I just coulnd’t think anything else that ‘whatta f*ck?!?’.

According to our investigations, people here seem to think that me and Juha are brothers. And those persons who keep telling that we look same, are not just one or two. Weird. We don’t look same! Or do we?

Yesterday we arrived at Asha Guesthouse in Bangkok - our first waypoint towards a small adventure. Hot, humid, huge, but nice I would say, if someone asks how is it. And cheap. For example one can easily get punch of bananas for 10 cents, whereas local design or international copycat t-shirts costs around two dollars. Bazaars, ah, bazaars.

We spent this day going around Bangkok’s shopping places, trying desperately to find shorts and sunlotions. Nevertheless, a crazy riding Tuktuk (three-wheeled taxi) in the local rush hour was rather nice experience. Still middle of this large and lively city there lies a relaxed and chill ‘manjana’ feeling.

However, the day after tomorrow we are going to continue our journey to Phnom Phen, Cambodia - the country that has not been ruined by millions of tourists.

I will get back to my blog probably somewhere in Cambodia next week. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy the sunshine (and these +35 celcius degrees)!