Siem Reap...and finally, only 4 years after trying to plan a trip (for those of you who remember my failure to get here last time I was in Thailand!), we made it to Angkor Wat. I have to confess that, as impressive as the famous main bit Angkow Wat is, it wasn´t as impressive as I´d been expecting. Maybe that´s just a case of too many photos preceding the first viewing of it. We went for sunset - slightly misleading as they don´t let you w...

We´re about to head off to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat, having spent an incredible couple of days in Phnom Penh.I don´t understand where all the bad things we´ve heard about Cambodia have come from. Practically from the second we got into the country (which, by the way, was VERY straightforward to do), I completely fell in love with it. The people are amazingly friendly and not too hassly, the countryside is beautiful, and Phnom Penh is a modern an...