The grand palace here is of the same sparkly-gold spire variety of that in Bangkok. The crowds are fewer and the gardens are greater. But the weather was incredible!
Property owners and tuk tuk drivers may not agree with me on this, but yesterday's monsoon rocked my socks. There was so much rain in ~45 mins (combined with poor drainage systems) that the palace grounds and the streets of Phnom Penh flooded! On several occasions I found myself wading through knee high black water trying very hard not to think of terrible water born diseases. As it happened, after the storm, our hostel was in the middle of a lake. It took one foolhardy but awesome tuk tuk driver to discover an alternate and less submerged route back to our hostel and shower. Best. Palace. Visit. Ever.
Man on cell phone in front of the Grand Palace.
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