The boat journey from Siem Reap to Battambang was fantastic. The boat itself was very simple with two plastic benches either side which made for a slightly uncomfortable 6 hour journey along the river but we saw so many great things. We passed many villages built on stilts in the river completely isolated from solid ground or roads. Occasionally we dropped off locals who would be picked up by family from the middle of the river in small boats. There were lot of c...

The journey to Siem Reap was long and boring. We arrived into Phnom Penh late in the evening on the Sunday and as Phnom Penh seems to have a continuos rush hour it meant it took us over an hour to get from the outskirts to our drop off point in the centre. The traffic in Cambodia is terrifying, people drive on the wrong side of the road all the time and there are no rules. We see thousands of people riding scooters with no helmets and 4 or 5 people crammed on i...

So really this blog is what it says on the tin, well the location name :-)! It certainly was a lazy beach! After the elephant and jungle madness in Saen Monorom we were both looking forward to a bit of chill time at what was apparently one of the the best beaches in Cambodia. It took us all day to get two 6 hour minivans, via Phnom Penh to Sihanouksville on the South coast. I have to admit I am surprised we survived the second leg of the journey as I think the d...

Saen Monorom is a small town very close to the Vietnamese border in Western Cambodia. It took us about 5 hours to get there from Phnom Penh. There aren't any taxis or tuktuks out there so we managed to find two guys willing to take us on the back of their scooters the 2km out of town to our hostel. This 'scooter taxi' cost around $1 each. Our hostel was a set of small lodges (basically garden sheds) set in a large field with cows and horses roaming around outsi...

I won't write a seperate blog about Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) as there isn't too much to write. The first day we arrived we did the guide book walking tour in the rain which wasn't very interesting. The second day we visited the Reunification Palace which had some nice architecture and interior decoration, in the afternoon we went to see a film at the cinema. Basically Saigon is a big, busy city and our gateway to Cambodia. On our last day in Vietnam we crossed the ...