
Cell phone coverage is excellent in Cambodia. Despite only earning $35 per month, our guide and park ranger, has spent $50 to purchase a phone.There are more than 4 million phone subscribers in Cambodia (35% of the 14million population). In contrast, only 31% of Cambodians have access to safe drinking water.
Despite talking on his cell phone he was a very knowledgeable guide and pointed out lots of things we would not have seen on our own, for example, the gecko in the picture below.


I ran out of gas in a little village. Half the kids in the village came out to watch the "gas station" attendant fill the tank with gas from 1 litre glass Pepsi bottles.
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