Goodbye to Aotearoa once againAfter a more than full one month away in Australia and NZ, Sue and I returned to Cambodia two days ago. Since we can to 'spy out the land' in September 2006, this was my sixth landing at Phnom Penh airport.
There is always a mixture of excitement and trepidation in coming back here. I find that the tuktuk ride back in from the airport is a good time to settle into the land again - the heat, the smells, the 10,000 visual impacts of people going about life in this nation of Cambodia.
This time, the tuktuk ride did not disappoint. The city had been deluged with rain and the streets were knee-deep and better in swirling waters. Glorious chaos reigned, with cars, motorbikes and even trucks stalled and stuck in flood waters. Flooding flowed into shops, homes, businesses - it was all pretty messy.
Our hapless tuktuk guy stalled and spluttered with the best of them - maybe six times I helped him push the machine through the flooding. 90 minutes of fun and Susie's running commentary and we made it home to a happily waiting Selena. Yay!!
Fun in the flooding
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