New Years Eve in Cambodia

Siem Reap has become in recent years a booming tourist town. Most of the visitors are Koreans and other Asians in tour groups. Westerners tend to be the young backpacker type.

Just in the last few years a nightlife has sprung up in Siem Reap centered on what is called Pub Street. On Dec 31st I went there for a late dinner with a large group of American scholars. By the time that we finished, the street was packed with tons of tourists.

Siem Reap is not New Orleans, and Pub Street does not have the drunkenness of Bourbon Street. It does not have the debauchery of some areas of Bangkok either. Hangover III will not be located here.

Some women in our group had their feet cleaned of dead skin by carnivorous fish. I first heard of this process from a blog post of Mrs. Pommer when she visited Japan.