Phnom Pehn

Well the bus DID NOT drop me off at the night market. We got dropped
off somewhere near some other random market who knows where. But
anyway the monk I was sitting next to told me a tuk tuk to the river
front would be 5000 reals ($1.25) so I hopped in one of those and
headed to Okay Guesthouse. When we got there I paid the driver 5000
and he tried to tell me we had agreed to 5 dollars! Ha yeah right.

I had reserved a cheap room at okay but when I got there they didn't
have any and said that the number I called from lonely planet was a
guy up in Siem Reap. $10 rooms were the cheapest they had but she gave
me one for $9. It had a big bed fan, private bath, cable tv with HBO
and cinimax. The next day I moved to a room that was $8 and had a
window to the outside... Big mistake. There was a construction lift
right outside that made a terrible racket and the Cambodians who lived
in the alley were really loud. Okay guest is pretty good though with a
good vibe and a decent restaurant. It's on a little side street that
has a bunch of other guest houses too and a cool vibe and it's not too
long a walk to the river front which is nice. Around the corner near
the Cambodia/Vietnamese monument is the best Indian restaurant I've
ever been to called KK Tandoor. It opened 3 months ago. Eat there.

Shooting range
I started talking to a guy who is a moto driver and sorta affiliated
with Okay Guesthouse one morning about going to a shooting range. I
really wanted to shoot a rocket launcher but had read online either
that you can't anymore or that it's 350 bucks which was too much. This
guy told me he had a friend who could do $300. I knew that a couple
years ago it used to be 200 so I said how about 250 and he said that's
fine. We met his friend, got picked up in a car and drove 60km out of
the city. I was a little worried I was going to get robbed cause I was
alone in a car with 3 Cambodians I had just met driving out to the
middle of no where with 300 bucks in my pocket. But it all worked out
thankfully. We drove out to an old army base or range or something and
loaded up on the arsenal before heading out. The rocket launcher was
AWESOME! I was pretty scared it was going to blow me up though cause
who knows how old it is and actually the first two rockets had bad
firing caps and didn't shoot. Of course after that they asked me if I
wanted to shoot a grenade launcher for 50 bucks which I did and I got
him to through in 5 shots with the AK-47 as well. Awesome experience
and the guy even bought me a sandwich and water on the way back.

I tried to see the palace and the silver pagoda but entry closes at
4:30pm, not 5:30 like the lonely planet says so I just missed getting
in.

Okay Guesthouse sells bus tickets for the same prices as the bus
companies but they also offer a free shuttle too the bus. I took the
$4 Bus to Sihanoukville, shuttle left around 7:45am and the bus
company was GST. Bus is nice, no bathroom but pretty new and has
another Cambodian dubbed movie playing which are actually getting
pretty annoying.