-Mini-buses exploding with cargo from every possible opening, back door tied down, roof rack filled, people piled on top and hanging out the windows
-Endless green rice paddies spotted with palm trees
-Fuel stations consisting of a hand-operated pump or just plastic bottles full of petrol
-An elephant lumbering down the side of the road
-Herds of cows and water buffalo who obviously have the right of way
-Bicycles invisible under their loads of woven bamboo baskets
-Muslim villages where the women wear pastel head scarves and long sleeves, while the men wander around wrapped only a krama (the checked scarf used for everything by the Khmer)
-Trucks piled twice their height with cords of firewood
-Tasty snacks at rest stops: duck eggs, marinated frogs, fried spiders that are 3 inches long (the frying process sometimes isn't rigorous enough to remove the hair from their legs)
-Channel after channel of the huge Mekong River, spreading wide with all the water from the nightly thunderstorms
-Hammocks, hammocks, everywhere: under houses, between trees on the side of the road, in the back of tuk-tuks
-People under the age of 18 (after all, they make up over half the total population)
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