As we took our seats on what was to be our bus from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, around 5 hours away, we were pretty relaxed. Rather unexpectedly, It seemed ok. There was no live stock that we could see (or smell). The bus looked like it was actually made at some point in the last 50 years. There was even a TV. And it worked. They were showing Mr. Bean and guess what, the locals laughed more than we did. They loved it bless them. Yep, its safe to say, in that moment,...

As we took our seats on what was to be our bus from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, around 5 hours away, we were pretty relaxed. Rather unexpectedly, It seemed ok. There was no live stock that we could see (or smell). The bus looked like it was actually made at some point in the last 50 years. There was even a TV. And it worked. They were showing Mr. Bean and guess what, the locals laughed more than we did. They loved it bless them. Yep, its safe to say, in that moment,...

We arrived in the kingdom of Cambodia shortly before sunset. There was an orange red glow on the horizon courtesy of the hastily retreating sun, but the humidity however, was most certainly still present. As were the mosquitoes. Before I continue I would just like to point out that before officially arriving in Cambodia, in the process we also made our very first overland border crossing. Now isn’t that exciting. There was, contrary to popular rumour among bac...