travel to Siem Reap Cambodia from Malaysia by train ..part XVIII

{Lone Ranger Finding His Loving Wife}

......continued from part XVII

Previously in part XVII 。。。
"We had few glasses of beer and chances to know more about the locals through Mr Roth who can speak good English.

So, basically that was all for my second day in Cambodia. Before sending me back to hotel, I asked him to stop by a laundry shop to collect my clothes (the laundry shop is just 5 minutes walking distance from Bayon Boutique hotel, convenient). The tut-tut driver fee for all these, USD20 only, worth it."

(September 18, 2015)
This was my third day in Cambodia and it was another "big day" of my life. I was going to fulfill an (almost) impossible mission here in Cambodia, a foreign country which is 2000km from home (Malaysia).

I woke up early and completed check-out process with my first hotel experience in Cambodia. Then I had my second Cambodian breakfast in its renowned in-house restaurant.

Bayon Boutique Hotel in-house restaurant

detailing the design of a Khmer restaurant

imitated carving @ in-house restaurant of Bayon Hotel

counter design @ Khmer restaurant 

Khmer breakfast by Bayon Hotel 

Khmer porridge @ Bayon Hotel 

well decorated even the backyard

 Then I ordered to take-away a Khmer curry chicken.

Khmer curry @ Bayon Boutique Hotel

A tut-tut was stand-by to fetch me to Siem Reap International Airport at a designated time. Thumb-up to the Bayon Boutique Hotel which allowed me to change my quota of "pick-up from airport" into "take-me to airport". 
It taken 20 minutes to reached at the airport. Well, what was I going to do in an airport ? Fly home? Haha! No!

I asked the tut-tut driver to drop me at the [ARRIVAL] door. The driver surprised and insisted to drive me further to [DEPARTURE] door. I said "No! I want to get down here".. Haha! So nice the Khmer.
With anxious & exciting, I quickly walked straight into the gate. 
Inside the hall, an airport officer stopped me and explained that tourists were not allowed in this area. So, I had to walk out then. Then I read on a flight status screen.

the flight status screen outside Siem Reap Airport

I waited for 20 minutes and finally the screen shown the flight from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) had [ARRIVED]. So, who is coming from Malaysia? You guess 。。。

Master Yoda ?

Master Yoda @ KL Airporrt

This one ? An Astronaut from Malaysia 'Boleh' ? 

Malaysia boleh @ KL Airport

Or this big-eye lady ?

YP @ KL Airport, Malaysia

Yup yup yup! You guessed it right. My wife is coming by flight. "Why you stupid monkey let your wife take a plane whilst you yourself taken a train to reach 2000km foreign coutnry ? Bloody-hell 。。。" Yup, I repeated my own arisen question many and many times during this 30 minutes session. Keeping anxiety, what could it be if that airplane was end-up to be another MH370 ? 
I proposed to marry my lovely wife 20 years ago, but we never been to oversea together. 
I am an acrophobia (fear of heights) & airplane-phobia (fear of flights) person. During these twenty years, I kept hiding from reality and we keep chasing for 'never-ending needs' of livings. 
This year 2015, blessed with many thanks to the great Amitabha, after long & deep consideration and proper planning, I sacked myself from current work (into a wild pre-retirement life), I had a chance to plan 'our' long-waited oversea tour. 
At start, I pursuit her to ride on train together; but she said "it could be too tired if taking train" Yes! It could be a physically tiring but not a soul-boring ride. (right ? After these 17 episodes of story tells) She insisted to fly. Alright then, one go for train, one go for plane. Here it comes 。。。

a tut-tut exhibited in KL airport 

flying alone. scary look 

Kuala Lumpur airport

KL airport, plane ready to fly

Back to the story that I was still waiting my lovely wife to come out from the door after the flight status shown that the plane had [ARRIVED]. 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes 。。。passed, but she haven't come out !
A badge after another badge of tourists came out from the door but I still not seeing my lovely wife. 
。。。。。。
Finally,

YP landed in Siem Reap

shaky hand camera shot. Too excited

my lovely wife, YP

riding on a tut-tut @ Siem Reap airport

happy moment @ tut-tut by hotel

YP selfie @ Siem Reap International Airport

romance moment @ hotel room 

Sorry ya 。。 after this part, it was all private moments, and you bet, this is not a porno story blog .. Kekeke

。。。。。。to be continued


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