We planned to move from Siem Reap to Sihanouk Ville for a few days, and John had arranged to head down on the sleeper bus over night. Though this would have been the easiest way to get there, we had to travel back to Phnom Penh and stay for the night whilst we arranged our visas for Vietnam. We left the guesthouse in Siem Reap at 11am, feeling slightly hungover after the heavy night before and less than 6 hours sleep since. Still at least we weren't in Brian's b...

We left to Siem Reap on 17th May, with John, Mickey and Sam. The journey took about 5 hours but went fairly quickly as we had treated ourselves to a luxury bus with big leather reclining seats. We had arranged to stay in a guest house recommended but the travel agency, and when we arrived there was a tuktuk driver, with a sign saying "Mr Mickey" waiting for us. The guest house was nice, and we got three big huts next to each other for the bargain price...

We left 4000 islands in a rush without breakfast, as our alarm had failed to go off, and we woke up 15 minutes before our boat left at 8am. We met John outside the huts and headed down to the beach, where the boat took us back over to the mainland. We got on a bus at the other side, but the paths were still quite muddy following heavy rain, and the bus couldn't make it up the slope away from the shore. Everyone got back off whilst the driver took a big run at the...