Day 1: Phnom Penh City, Cambodia

Day 1- Day 3: Phnom Penh City, Cambodia

And so the journey begins. With 13 of us, medical plus one dentistry students from UK and Ireland, we prayed to Allah to give us strength for the days to come and to protect us from any harm during the journey. We were in KLIA, there was a short briefing after checking in our luggages and boxes of donated items (thanks to those who contributed!).

Pic: Us with the donated items..a few hours before departing

At around 10.50 am local time, the city pf Phnom Penh came into view. We were greeted by Dr Mosein, president of Islamic Medical Association Cambodia (IMAC). Dr Mosein is a medical doctor AND a politician as well, he worked hard to improve the lives of Muslims in Cambodia, something that I find very respectable after listening to everything that he had done.

Pic: view of Phnom Penh city from the air.

So, everything was arranged for us to check in to our hotel ie Puncak Hotel,a hotel previously owned by Malaysians. On our way there, I have to admit that we were all equally in a high spirit of total excitement: berbelit juga lidah trying out some basic words of the Cambodian language. hehe. but anyways along the way to the hotel, we were observing the city of Phnom Penh..Hmm..although it was the capital city of Cambodia, I can't really compare it with Kuala Lumpur. We were especially taken aback at how many people can actually ride on a motorcycle together. There were 4 of them on a same motorbike at the same time...all big guys and not wearing helmet some more! Those are the common scenes on the roads of Phnom Penh I guess.

Pic: Ini kira cukup baik la 3 orang. I usually found 4 on a bike ^-^

The arranged activity for the day was the visit to the Malaysian Embassy. There we met Mr Megat who told us a lot of some inside stories of the country we were in at the moment, and the close connection and roles that Malaysia has in Cambodia. There were quite a lot of interesting facts, but that would be really lengthy for me to write in here. But I will do so later perhaps. :)

(to be continued...))