Get Siem Reap quick, before they start control measures for the masses. Hotels are going up everywhere, and they have even roped off a few of the murals where the glyphs are carved.

Just as an example, my wife was there in Feb '03 while I was working on Borneo, there was very little there in terms of tourist infrastructure. Now after nearly two years, there are restaurants all over the places and hotel construction is rampant.

I told my guide in 20 yrs time the Water People of the Great Lake will be gone. He looked at me in disbelief. I told him that when I was a child we used to fly into Costa Rica on a propeller airplane, land at the old airport, get our suitcases and walk down the street to my aunt's house on Paseo Colon. That's all gone now. Once progress gets in, it starts moving very fast, and the old goes away and is soon forgotten. Many young in Costa Rica don't even know that La Sabana park was once the old airport, and that the museum building was the control tower. How could it be, since it is right in downtown

Oh, I did my sightseeing tour in Tokyo and am now back at the Narita Hilton. Took the train down this morning and back this evening. That was fun. I'll add a few more pics later. I leave tomorrow in the PM.

Z