Cambodia

The Cambodians are really lovely people, and the children are gorgeous, very street savvy though.They all speak remarkably good English and most some Japanese and Chinese or Korean,where most of the tourists, and therefore the $, comes from. They've had a very hard time in recent decades, which I'll go into later, but are coming out the other side as a really great, if enterprising, nation. Everything seems to cost a dollar, from a bottle of water to the copied books and postcards that the street children sell (of which there are too many, although most are just trying to get enough money together to pay their teachers, as they all love to learn, and schooling a recent phenomenon.)

You really notice the difference when you get to Vietnam as the people there are far more pushy and I suppose aggressive. Thailand is more relaxed, but then they have far more too. I think that's what Cambodia will be soon, but I'll be interesting to see in a few years time when it gets more developed. I really hope it doesn't loose any of its charm, and just takes the good bits of a 'developed' capitalist society.