Same Same, But Different!

TRACIE ... Just bought a tee-shirt with the words 'Same Same' on the front, and 'But Different' on the back. It's early days, but I have a few instant first impressions of Cambodia with regards to differences from VietNam:

The Sun feels hotter here.
Its more expensive for food and accommodation here, which is interesting because I would have thought that Cambodia would be a bit behind VietNam in western influence.
There are as many people who try to sell you stuff, including heaps of Tuk Tuk drivers trying to take you places (we're walking), but they all seem to take refusal better.
More beggars here.
Lots of people with limbs missing. So sad.
Where we are seems dirtier, with more rubbish in the streets, than we have seen in the places we have been in VietNam.
The people we have seen with babies, seem more besotted by them than in VietNam.
The side street shop owners dont seem to be so pushy.
The motorcyclists don't seem so courteous towards pedestrians. It's way less congested so crossing the road should be easier, but bikes seem to come much closer here..
Less bikes, more cars, which seems weird considering what I would thought the economy would be like.
The market we went to here was way more 'civilised' than the one we went to in VietNam; wider aisles, people keen to sell but not so pushy. In VietNam, one young woman stood in the aisle (which felt less than one person wide) in front of Jono and wasnt going to let him past without us buying something. We almost had to push her out of the way!

It's so amazing to get this chance to see some more of the world. I feel so ignorant, and am really enjoying another opportunity to see cultures and people so unlike me. I'm not saying one place seems better than another because both places have things we love and things we might not love quite so much. Just different.

This afternoon we are off to have a massage at a place called Seeing Hands Massage. The people are blind. It's going to cost US $5 per hour. There are a couple of places to eat and buy stuff where proffits go towards helping kids etc, so we are looking out for those places to spend our money...