First Impressions of Cambodia (Siem Reap)
good morning guys and welcome to siem reap cambodia we got here yesterday after a long about 10 hour journey from bangkok and i'm excited to be here it is extremely hot but it is also extremely different so i'm excited to get out and explore now today i'm going to show you guys my first impressions i'm starting the day off right with a nice coffee and check this out we have this beautiful lady here hello with a cart with pastries wow this is amazing how are you today wow your cart is so beautiful so here in cambodia they use cambodian reals and dollars it's pretty interesting you know what which one's your favorite one which one the best the best one okay give me give me three three thank you you're so nice what's your name my name is my name's chris nice to meet you akon you make this yourself yeah wow okay i'm excited thank you what is this one coconut coconut oh yeah thank you i'll do yeah one of each okay can you hold this for me gladys thank you so much i love your cart it's so beautiful thank you oh the people here in cambodia are so lovely oh gladys shows me that she has some money right now yeah you show me five five seats wow thank you so much thank you tomorrow tomorrow here yes yes see you tomorrow see see you tomorrow thank you we i think i understood i think she said that she's going to be here tomorrow she does the same route every day wow thank you so much you're so lovely so nice thank you i gotta get my coffee thank you bye wow and man it is so amazing look at her cart guys she has condensed milk this one this one for ice i think this is for a shaved ice drink i love her sound system i think she's giving me her phone number no the hotel right there yes i call you tomorrow thank you so much oh man she's so nice she's so nice thank you bye oh and like she's just gonna take off on her motorcycle man i feel like i just bye oh my god what's the sweetest lady how did we just come across her oh man that is wonderful okay guys now i'm actually gonna prop myself up right here in the shade because it is extremely hot and oh man i'm not lying to you guys it's about 35 degrees out here and extremely brutal but let's go ahead and try our cambodian donut oh my god you know what gladys i think i'm gonna have to call that lady back tomorrow and i think we're gonna have to give that lady a surprise that's a hardworking lady man that's a real hard working lady and we just bought all of these donuts and pastries for less than two dollars wow and she was so lovely man okay i'm not gonna lie for those of you guys who watched the video when we were arriving to cambodia it was a bit of a rough experience but the people are so lovely here so lovely so hard working and they just haven't had tourists in a very long time oh man i'm sweating so so bad let's try the cambodian donut now it looks like there's a glaze on top some sort of seeds um wow that's so good in right now hey chuck chuck just pulled over because here in siem reap there are tuk-tuks everywhere and literally they just want work they haven't had tourists in a long time and they offer you sunrise tours and anchor watts sunset tours oh man my eyes are burning from the sunscreen wow come on let's get gladys in here try this tell me that is not amazing i was enjoying this it's latte i flattened with boa can you believe that only in cambodia these are the tick ticks on the right behind gladys right now oh my god that is so good huh this is me it's so fresh huh maybe with tapioca as well that's what it tastes like tapioca with some sort of seeds and yeah this is a home holi and caramel like sugar the sugar which would you prefer the casio in venezuela it's sugar you cook sugar and cane sugar right wow that's so good seriously guys um what a way to kick off our trip here in cambodia and we also got a chocolate donut and these two like ball things that i'm not sure what they are but i figured we should try them too because why not you guys want to see all of this amazing stuff as well that looks nice it looks like a donut hole look how soft wow it's good oh wow yeah but my favorite the cambodians yum wow and you know what it's crazy because they have so many patriots because of the french influence and it's great to find this at the street so fresh so well made amazing and the most amazing part was that lady oh my god she can make happy everybody i mean if you are having a bad day and you cross with her at the street you'll be happy for sure after that yes what man i think she's doing the perfect job she's selling pastries in the morning so that you know that's definitely the first person you want to come across as you start your day you're going to have an amazing day now these here are like the tuk tuks that drive around seam rape there are so many hello they offer tours to like angkor wat all of the amazing spots around here you can also rent bicycles from absolutely everywhere scooters all kinds of cool stuff guys and honestly um this country is very impressive because as i mentioned they actually use two currencies they use the cambodian real and american dollar actually gladys do you mind holding this for me for a second i actually want to show you guys a few of the bills before we um head on out to a different direction so you guys have probably seen this one before this is an american five dollar bill they use them a lot and you can actually find american change everywhere here now this is a hundred reals which is pretty much like yeah like nothing then you have a 500 this one i've noticed is extremely common so to give you guys some context 4 thousand reals is roughly one us dollar there is also the thousand notes and i've been noticing that there is also a five thousand and ten thousand is there some right here no these are just like currencies from all around the world but a lot of different bills and you can withdraw them from atms or come to one of the many exchange centers there's exchange boosts absolutely everywhere and i'm not gonna lie the currency exchange rate is actually pretty damn good we exchanged thai bots and they gave us a little bit more than what i what i looked up the price was on google i was actually blown away now right now we're actually i'm not gonna lie we had left the house to go and film our first impressions video but then come came across that lady in her beautiful cart so i decided to start the video there but we are about to start a walk over to the old market but first i do gotta jump into the pharmacy to buy a couple little items to take back to my hotel so i'll see you guys in a few minutes just left the hotel and we are back baby so right now as i mentioned i'm in siem reap i'm in the most touristic area right next to the iconic pub street and well i'm gonna show you guys a little bit of what the vibes look like around here as you can tell there are friendly people already and you can tell that it is extremely hot now we've been here for one night so far and what i noticed yesterday evening is that on this street right along the riverbed many different street food carts align the streets in the late evenings i think right now it's still a little too hot that's why you only see a few carts out on the streets right now like this one and the green one ahead but in the later evening it definitely does fill up quite a bit now yesterday i actually had this small little like ramen dish on the street had a little cart right in front of this bridge crossing over into the night market and wow the noodles were incredible it was honestly something super how can i say it like super simple it was literally an instant noodle a pack of instant noodles with chicken but she put so many incredible seasonings in there vegetables and what tasted like something i could easily spend 10 to 15 on back home and the plate literally only costed one dollar now what i've been noticing the biggest difference so far between thailand and cambodia is the heat the heat is a huge difference and it's quite impressive because it is literally only a few hours drive from thailand and the climate is already so much different i've also noticed that well compared to all the places i've been to in thailand of course you can tell that they're struggling a lot right now because of the pandemic but here they are definitely struggling a lot more steam reap was one of those destinations that used to be like this with tourists and right now there's not many guys there's not many at all and it sucks to see i mean it's nice for us because we're going to be able to visit anchorwat with little to no people however for the locals it definitely is extremely rough now this is actually where i wanted to come into to start today's video this old market because i heard it is a great place to walk around check out some souvenirs and also try some local food so why not let's go on and explore the local market and see if we can find ourselves i don't know maybe some some glasses i need some sunglasses because i lost my ray-bans a few days ago and yeah i'm extremely sad about it so let's see if we can find something something interesting something cool inside of this market now i'm not even too sure how you enter this place but looks like there's a walkway in here so let's make our way inside hello yeah i'm the same when i see beautiful women so nice huh okay i don't know exactly where to start i'm looking for some shades let's see if we can find some shades i've seen a lot of clothing right now and a lot of the same stuff that you can see like in in thailand a lot of the elephant clothing elephant bags buddhas all kinds of cool stuff now wow this is definitely the place to hide if you're coming to siem reap it is so much cooler in here than it is outside so much more nice wow looks like this is like a big jewelry department see i definitely don't want to go inside the jewelry department but wow look at this guys are those real i think they're real to be honest i think these are real alligators hello are these real yeah wow from where i have that oh a crocodile farm wow myself that's amazing how much are they um oh but we go around 100 wow yeah it feels real huh yes the weird skin inside just put check out the inside and put like this simple this one is broken put like this inside wow okay that's awesome where's your crocodile farm do you do tours to the crocodile farm yeah i want to go i have uh in the but along uh far away from here at the thin lake oh okay i have had a big hello okay thank you thank you sir i mean thank you ma'am yeah wow super cool we might have to come by and buy a crocodile that'd be interesting do you know can i take that home i don't know you can check first check the internet first okay okay thank you interesting right okay that was super super cool i've never seen a real one of those before they do sell them in a lot of places in the world but i've never heard of a real one being sold now here we go we got some sunglasses for sale right here some watches oh man look at that they got all the rolexes citizen watches super super cool hello how much are the sunglasses five dollars which ones you don't have any ones that are cheaper than five dollars i'm your first customer okay which ones are your favorite sunglasses the ray ben okay let's check out the ray bans then oh can i move this yeah it's okay oh i don't want to drop it i had i had ray-bans and i lost them oh yeah so these are just um cheap okay how much are those ones 15 okay let's check out the so the basically the big difference guys is that these ones here are not polarized these ones are polarized so they're better for your eyes and for the sun okay but we're gonna go with the cheap ones because i have a feeling i'm gonna lose these extremely fast as well i never buy expensive sunglasses i bought um the ray bans that i just lost recently at ross for like 60 bucks oh thank you so much i bought them for like 60 bucks and they were on sale and i lost them wow these are cool can can i clean oh okay thank you thank you no it's okay no customer huh that's why they get dusty i like the market beautiful market huh not many tourists that's sad huh i hope it gets better for you guys two years no tourist huh that's so hard thank you it's been a tough two years huh how do i look good handsome man ah i'm a handsome i like cambodia everyone say i'm handsome which ones are those ones are those different styles same style but even like this small sign this one's bigger huh is it bigger than the one same same as this one yeah oh yeah but that one's more expensive huh are you okay oh no those are too big yeah i like the other ones better actually you know what let me try these ones on again i think i like the first ones i tried on to be honest these ones look good oh man they bend a little too far though let me see oh a different style different side panel like they have one oh wow that's super cool oh yeah wow big difference okay well you know what i think i'll take the cheap ones because i don't have that much cash on me i i only have luke five okay thank you so much okay i try i get better thank you so much thank you cool guys so we got ourselves some nice ray bans how much are the watches which one do you like yeah how much the rolex's i never had rolex before you know you now like me like they tell you now twenty-eight dollars wow nice for you okay well i have no more cash i'll come back i come back and i'll look at your watches we'll come back and we'll look at some watches thank you thank you so much oh so friendly remember me please okay definitely coming back here hello definitely coming back here to um check out her her watches let me know down below if you guys would like to see thank you thank you unfortunately we have no more cash on us right now we just spent it all but let me know down in the comment section what else you guys would like to see from here in cambodia as i mentioned this is my first impressions but i think we did pretty good guys we got some donuts i got some cheap ray bans that yeah honestly are probably a lot worse for my eyes than walking around without any at all however for the pitchers who's going to tell the difference all right guys now um if you guys would like to see a fake market tour here in cambodia please let me know man the rolex is for 28 bucks dude that's insane in thailand they were still trying to sell fake rolexes and fake rich millies for like 150 bucks no way in hell i'd ever pay that for a fake watch especially when i could go get like a g-shock or something but 28 bucks for a rolex might have to happen let's be real i'll probably never be able to afford one of those unless you guys smash that like button and subscribe and maybe make that dream possible but for now who knows a fake rolex might have to do the job later guys i was the one to take
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