The sentiment of journey.

by Mr. Nanthaphat Waliphat (Thailand)

I didn't expect to find Cambodia

I'm a fourth-year student who is living in the square box of the dormitory in the dream city of many people and most of the time. I got bored easier to stay in square box which makes me became a travel lover. I'm always excited for every single time when I have a new trip comes up on my mind and before I'm going to share you about my incredible experience. I would like to tell you how this trip occurred. It occurred while I was laying on the bed and keep thinking about the trip that which one is answer my limited budget so The Cambodia just came up on my mind out of the blue and I decided to go to Cambodia without delay and planning with my close friend. We were excited and nervous to explore the new land. We went to Cambodia by train which the cheapest transportation in my country. We could see amazing view and making up the new friends along the journey. While sitting on the train. there were many merchants carried the goods and shouted to sale their stuffs. It seems crowded situation but this crowded situation gave us the new friends by helping the foreigner who is trying to buy the stuff, but they couldn't communicate to each other and on that moment our feeling's overwhelming of excitement to help them and using English to communicate to them. After helped them. We keep talking to each other for a while before getting off the train to cross the border. After cross the border we were looking for the Taxi to go to Seam Reap and There was a Cambodian guy approached and helped us. we thought that's such a good signal of our trip until we got the ticket and Cambodian guy approached us again to ask for the money to helped us to get the Taxi. We were shocked a bit but our passion of travel is stronger than that feeling. We keep heading to our destination until we met Indian who doesn't want to miss the flight to fly back to Thailand for his job. He suggested us going to places and trying foods in Cambodia until we got Ream reap. We said Goodbye and we keep finding out the way to get our hotel by asking people around. After we got the hotel. We planed where we’re going to go for tonight and tomorrow by looking on the internet. We found the Pub street and incredible temple such as Angkor temple. We went to pub street and made friend along the way. We found the women who is into the Buddhist religion. She shared us her experiences and cried while telling her journey. We arrived the night market and tried the food that Indian guy suggested us to try. After that we went straight to the bar where we can have fun and show our step on the floor as normal teen do. While drinking we got little tipsy and we went back to our hotel with certainly confidence for the direction. We walked for a while and we felt why it’s longer than when we came. We got hesitation and started to argue. While arguing there were drunkards tried to approached and asked us to go with. We ran away from them without knowing the direction and shouted out in my language by forgetting that we are not in Thailand. As a bad luck brings a good to us. There was a girl who approached us and tried to helped us to get back to our hotel even if she couldn’t speak English. She tried to communicate to us by using body language. We spent almost an hour to communicate to her to take us to our hotel because she didn’t know our hotel site until she took us to her friends and the end of the day. we got our hotel. We tried to give her money as a gift but she didn’t want it. That makes us so impressed for what we didn’t expect to get. This is fascination of travelling to connect to people even if we have nothing in common.