On the Wednesday I explored the town and went to the local market.\u00a0 As soon as I walked in I realised that this could be another place that I get stuck and end up spending too much money.\u00a0 I bought some awesome jewellery, bags, trousers and earrings and then decided that I really needed to get out of the market.\u00a0 All of my purchases only came to ten dollars so I guess it won’t technically break that bank!<\/p>\n
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I headed over the river to try and find a butterfly bar that I had read about.\u00a0 Apparently they pay local village children to collect butterflies and then release them in the garden.\u00a0 Ever the cynic my first thought was, should you really be encouraging children to catch butterflies and shouldn’t they be at school?!\u00a0 I then read on and realised that was what the money was for.\u00a0 Ho hum.\u00a0 I managed to completely miss the butterfly bar and went on a mammoth walk in the hottest part of the day up a dirt track.\u00a0 After a considerable amount of time I succumbed to one of the guys trying to get me to take a motorbike.\u00a0 I showed him the name of the place and a map.\u00a0 He then proceeded to drop me off at a completely different bar which was only about 200 metres up the road.\u00a0 I walked in and they had a swimming pool which was soooo tempting but I didn’t have any swimming gear.\u00a0 The man who owned the bar (John) was English and told me that I was miles from the butterfly bar.\u00a0 So I walked back, found a better motorbike and eventually arrived at the butterfly bar.\u00a0 The place was lovely but I couldn’t help thinking that they needed to pay the children more, or train them in butterfly catching as the numbers were slightly low.\u00a0 There was also building work going on nextdoor which interrupted the tranquility somewhat.\u00a0 They were using creosote nextdoor which I looooove.\u00a0 I ordered a watermelon shake which was so what the Doctor would have ordered if they were there.<\/p>\n
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My walk in the heat has since turned out to be a profitable one as I went back to the bar with the pool with one of the people I met at the guesthouse and it was a lovely place to chill out and have a drink and a swim.<\/p>\n
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So far I haven’t actually managed to go to any of the temples.\u00a0 My best intentions have been marred by the ever present markets, shops to wander round and, okay some rather fun and funny bars and clubs.\u00a0 Last night we went to a club which was a combination of a bar, nightclub, strip joint and brothel.\u00a0 I still have no tolerance for hideous old Western men picking up stunning local prostitutes so we didn’t stay very long.<\/p>\n
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I have vowed that I will visit the temples tomorrow as I really need to speed up my journey through Cambodia and into Thailand if I’m to get\u00a0there for the next full-moon party which is around the 20th May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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