How to not completely lose your mind in Cambodia.

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How to not completely lose your mind in Cambodia.

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Im preparing for a trip to SR and am quite paranoid of losing my head, last time i almost went completely fucking insane but had a hell of a good time too.

Rumour was the gas in the tap beer could be the cause of expats and backpackers to go batshit crazy but it could also be the abundance of cheap hard drugs and poverty fucking with peoples heads.
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Been here for 6 years and have yet to lose my mind. I don't do drugs, never had a problem with draft beer and I do not seem too much poverty.....
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hanno wrote:Been here for 6 years and have yet to lose my mind. I don't do drugs, never had a problem with draft beer and I do not seem too much poverty.....
Try victory hill at sunrise for insanity , poverty and nutters.
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last i heard victory hill was in shv not Siem Rep

Been traveling to Cambodia since the late 80's
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Lived in Phnom Penh and visited Cambodia 10-15 times for long stays. No mind-losing experiences. Just getting older. And never suffered from attention whoring either.
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bkktrapper wrote:
hanno wrote:Been here for 6 years and have yet to lose my mind. I don't do drugs, never had a problem with draft beer and I do not seem too much poverty.....
Try victory hill at sunrise for insanity , poverty and nutters.


I thought you were talking about SR?
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I've heard that people who move to Malaysia can lose their mind and confuse Siem Reap with Malaysia.
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i think SR is quite sophisticated compared to other parts of cambodia tbh, the "posh end" as we would call it in england, i did live in temple town when i first came here for a while, i had a mrs there for about 8 months, but moving down here to Shitsville i have a few times over the past few years slipped into alcoholic ways of drinking heavily every night, where you cant remember your last sober night etc, it is hard being a lad in his twenties and so much temptation around but im a lot more settled in myself now, a lot more focused on my life and time here
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ExPenhMan wrote:Lived in Phnom Penh and visited Cambodia 10-15 times for long stays. No mind-losing experiences. Just getting older. And never suffered from attention whoring either.

Well arent you aperfect angel then phen man, all temples , blessings and charity work you you i bet ...........

:stir:

on that note you cant say a shitload of barangs dont go completely off the rails in the kingdom no matter where they are based.


if you dont agree with that then i dont think you have really seen the place or just havent seen the newsworthy section.
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bkktrapper wrote:
ExPenhMan wrote:Lived in Phnom Penh and visited Cambodia 10-15 times for long stays. No mind-losing experiences. Just getting older. And never suffered from attention whoring either.

Well arent you aperfect angel then phen man, all temples , blessings and charity work you you i bet ...........

:stir:

on that note you cant say a shitload of barangs dont go completely off the rails in the kingdom no matter where they are based.


if you dont agree with that then i dont think you have really seen the place or just havent seen the newsworthy section.

HMmmmm 4.5 million tourists 2014 ( say 800,000 of those are Barangs)

so how many lose it
couple of hundred at Most
not so many
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