[QUOTE=Thaifun]It is like anywhere, in Cambodia guys go to the capitol, the beach, or Siem Reap and are doing ok, going to remote border areas and enjoying the wild west would be a bad idea. No acceptable hotels, infrastructure down, climate sometimes difficult, bad tv reception, constant brown outs, candle light or kerosene lamps, mud roads impassable, so there is nothing else to do then to hang out, drink and ..... Mindanao is partly the same. :) I luv it.[/QUOTE]And don't forget the food, as Cambodia is very different in that than Thailand. I almost starved to death in a remote Cambodian location until I finally found edible vegetable fried rice.
Same problem in mountainous areas in the Philippines where people are too poor to buy a fridge. They can’t stock meat so only eat meat for big occasions when they kill a chicken or a pig. They live on mainly through dried fish (bleah!). For some reasons I also can’t swallow most of their vegetables. I found the parade by getting a mix of cooked eggs, potato and onion. That does the trick, but of course only for a while.
Even in towns where only Filipino food is to be found it is hard to survive (certainly one of the worst aspect of the Philippines), but then in remote areas.. Forget it!
