First day in Cambodia

We had heard here and there that Cambodia was worse than Indonesia in someways, so we weren't exactly looking forward to going there.  When we got to the Visa part of the airport, we picked the $20 Tourist Visa and handed our passport to one window and went to go pay at another window.  The cashier charged us $25 for the Ordinary Visa without asking us.  We told him that we wanted the $20 one and he happily gave it to us.  Bur right from the start, we thought that it was going to be like dealing with Indonesians all over again. 

Cambodian currency is a bit weird.  They use dollars very commonly, and some books say you can go through Cambodia without having to change any if your money, so we didn't, but a little reluctant though.  

Then we got out of the airport and the tuk-tuks (motorized rickshaws) started swarming us.  "Tuk-tuk?  $7"  Our book gave about $3 to $4 as a good price so we haggled with them.  We think Indonesia totally got us ready because we just kept saying "$4 ... no? Bye!" and walked away.  We got the whiny response the same as the one we got in Indonesia, "Foouuuurrrrr? NoooOOOOooOoOO!!"  That made us laugh.  No really budged from $6 so we kept walking and another driver from outside the airport asked us if we wanted a tuk-tuk.  We did the usual, "How much? Seven? How about four?"  He agreed right away so we jumped on and took a 30-minute ride to the city.  His name was Mr. Poeung.  

A tuk-tuk is an covered wagon, but there are no windows, so the breeze was actually really nice, because Cambodia is HOT!  It was a good 95 degrees I think.  (37℃).  Mr. Poeung dropped us off at the guesthouse and we arranged for him to take us around Phnom Penh so we would be seeing a lot more of him ...

After coming back to the guesthouse, we started to realize that our assumptions of Cambodia were pretty wrong.  It's a pretty nice place.  People will try to get you to buy stuff, but if you say no, they stop there and leave you alone.  So far, I like Cambodia.