BACK TO THAILAND...

After having spent 10 days in Cambodia we felt that we've seen enough of it and spent enough in it. Compared to the neighbouring countries, even rich Thailand, Cambodia is SO overpriced. One reason being that all prices are quoted in dollars, and the others... who knows... maybe because stupid tourists still pay those prices, so, why lower them?... And it seems that one dollar bill is the most used one. Everything is "ONE DOLLAR~ ONE DOLLAR~". Even beggars ask you not for pennies but "One dollar~ One dollar~".
Anyways, the Angkor Wat was amazing. On our last day of a 3-days ticket, closer to sunset we wanted to get up in the air on a hot-air baloon, but because the rainy season has already started, the weather didn't permit us to get on it. So, we went back to Angkor Wat just to see it for the last time, and as we were walking in, everyone was walking out because of the expected rain, which poured regularly once a day, very heavily for about 2 hours and then would stop. We didn't really worried because we had our rain-coats with us, and it was worth staying a bit longer, not too much. When it started pouring down like "from the bucket" (word-for-word translation of Russian expression ha~), the Angkor Wat looked very mysterious and overwhelming. The moat surrounding it was absolutely beautiful too. It is a pity that I cannot take pictures in rain, otherwise it would be excellent shots.
The way back was windy and rainy and wet. Despite our raincoats we almost got all wet. Of course, as anyone knowing us, I was almost dry and Katy was almost soaked with water. It's a mistery to me how she can do things like that. :)
As we expected once we got to our guest-house, the rain almost stopped. The next day after that we wanted to go to see floating village on Tonle Sap lake, but we spent too long time in the Internet cafe and were too lazy and it looked like it was going to rain again, which it did and a lot, and so, we just stayed inside all day and bought tickets for Thailand for the next day.
Road to Thailand was long and bumpy. Cambodia has the worst roads in the world, oh well, of all countries in the world that I've seen. Katy says they are as bad as in Uzbekistan, (which is a personal insult to me), but Uzbekistan has far better roads than Cambodia, come and see for yourself. (A bit defensive here, huh? ha~).
Anyways, the driver who picked us up said that because it rained a lot yesterday the road to Thailand is all muddy and it will take ages for us to get to the border that we might miss our connecting bus and then ferry, so, we hired a sedan to take the four of us (another American couple) in old Toyota Camry to the border for extra charge. It was quick, but useless because although we got very quickly to the border, we had to wait for other people at the border to go to Koh Chang (the island) who was on that bus that we didn't go on. So, we waited for 5 hours on the bench and then in the minibus. We could as well take the regular bus to the border and save $10. Well, who knew. From there, it was fairly quickly ride on nice and smooth Thai road network to Koh Chang Island.

Koh Chang island is freaking huge. We spent one night in a nice room with the fridge and A/C and hot shower and TV and Coffee and Tea pot, and motorbike included, BUT.. no beach. So, the next day we took the bike and went around looking for the beach-front bungallows. And we found one right on the beach about 5 meters from the water, but no hot shower, no A/C, no TV, no fridge.... Just a simple hut, but with the view and sea breeze and the wave noise. The waives sounded very nice the first day and now it's just constantly noisy. But, probably pleasantly noisy.
Anyways, because it is raining season, not many people here, and the weather is not cooperating, although the sea is very warm and you can still swim, if you're not afraid of quite strong waves. I swam yesterday and it was nice.
Thinking that these are our last few peaceful days before the chaotic and people-swarming months and years in Uzbekistan, we just take it easy and do nothing but read and sleep and eat. Maybe today we'll drive to the other side of the island and maybe will do a bit of trekking to see a couple of waterfalls.