Cambodia

We had an early start on Monday for Cambodia.  We drove through Bangkok heading east, what an impressive city, very modern.  At one time on the freeway there were 2 highways below us, 1 above us and the Skytrain running along side us.  There are 14 million people in Bangkok, if I understand correct it is about the size of Calgary.  So Shaun, Shane Homes has some catching up to do, a lot of construction happening here.  At one point in time I counted 58 cranes.  This city has an unbelievable skyline.  I also don't think I have seen that many BMW, Lexus & Mercedes in one hour.
Finally we were out in the country.  There looks to be very good farming practises here, wet land is used for rice and vegetables, drier land is used for the other crops like corn, sugarcane, bananas, mango.    There were a lot of canals for irrigating the crops.  The land seemed to have gotten drier as we drove and the farming turned into Teak Wood Farming.  They seemed to be cutting the trees at all stages, I think it takes about 15 years for a tree to reach maturity.  There isn't a lot of equipment being used for farming but when you have 65 million people and another 20 million from Cambodia.  I guess you will still find enough people to work that don't mind getting their hands dirty.  Sugarcane harvesting is a very dirty job after the field has been burned and same as the rice harvesting.
We couldn't ask our driver any questions as he was driving 100 - 140 km/ hr the whole trip even through Bangkok (very good driver - didn't feel unsafe).  Most of the vehicles run on propane so we had to stop for fuel twice as he rarely used 5th gear (no power).

We got to the Cambodia border at noon, 3 hours later and 3000 b less (100 dollars) we walked across the Cambodian border.  It was another crazy border crossing and what a shock.  Talk about a time warp, wow, back to oxcarts, bicycles and broken down vehicles.  We stayed downtown Siem Reap so went to the Night Market and stopped for supper.  Deals, deals, deals.