After another month in the village, we found ourselves needing to return to Koh Kong for another Visa. As it is only an hour and a half from here, we took a shared taxi. It is lucky that the Khmer people are quite small because our taxi driver stubbornly squeezed seven people into his five seater car. At least nobody had a dog with them as well! As expected, the visa run was another amusing (and slightly infuriating) experience. We crossed into Thailand for a re...

Despite the necessary side trip to Sihanoukville, we have managed to uphold our personal promise and spend a solid few weeks in the village. The last month has been really busy and productive, and now we find ourselves needing to leave again to renew our visas. It's hard to believe we have already been in the village for two months! We have spent our weeks working on a variety of projects which often keep us busy from 6.30 in the morning until around 10 at night...

We weren't planning on returning to Sihanoukville again, but somehow it seemed a necessary excursion to keep everyone from going mad! After a bumpy two hour ride in the back of a ute, we pulled up in front of a very expensive looking massage business in the centre of Sihanoukville. Aidan was hopeful that we were all being treated to a massage, but it turned out that Gil-ad, our project director, actually owns the business and rents the building. Above the busine...

The price for a one month tourist visa for Cambodia is officially $20, however the country has a strong tendancy of government corruption. This means that the border officials have no problems at all with bullying travelers into paying sometimes as much as $35 and pocketing the profits. We had heard about this scam a hundred times and were determined to beat it. When it came down to it, despite our positive attitude, it's quite difficult to negotiate when you're ...

We decided to make the most of our visa run into Thailand and spend the weekend hanging out on one of the country's beautiful islands. Koh Chang was an easy choice as it known as one of the more laid back islands, and is also conveniently close to the Cambodian border. After leaving Phnom Penh, our aim was to get as close to Koh Chang as possible. The border crossing was much more civilised than the Vietnam-Cambodia crossing. This was probably because Thailand d...