It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in Siem Reap, Cambodia for almost a week. Today, we had to buy tickets to get back to Bangkok tomorrow. We’ll be ready at 7:30 am for the arrival of the tuk-tuk. Then one bus company will take us all the way back. The first is only to the border where we must exit Cambodia and get another visa into Thailand, then we will pick up a bus from the same company on the Thai side. The arrival in BKK could be as early as 3:30 pm but I shant count on it.Today, there’s not much to do. We don’t want to ‘see’ anything else. After breakfast out, we spent at least an hour in the Old Market. It is fun to walk around as it’s a curious mix of food, meat, and souvenirs. I bought a CD of MP3 Cambodian pop music. Yesterday I bought an eight-by-five inch wall hanging of the Bayon Temple faces. It is made of wood and I’m sure I could have haggled a better price than $10 but it is worth it as it’s something that cannot be bought in other places. I now try to avoid global souvenirs. Why do some people buy souvenir-type items for their houses if they haven’t actually visited that place? Export of such items cheapens their value. For example, I often see similarly carved Kenyan giraffes for sale in shops in Canada while ours were actually purchased from a Kenyan. I don’t even have to mention the silliness of buying supposed local souvenirs which are, in fact, made in China. I limit junk to one item per trip nowadays. It’s really past time to spend $1000 on a good curio-cabinet for the apartment in Vancouver.