Alison: We went to Phnom Penh with low expectations. We had been told it is a very unattractive city with street kids eyeing you up to rob you at every turn. We found, however, that the place does have a few nice areas and the street kids only eye you up at every other turn!!When we first arrived we had a few problems finding a place to stay. After negotiating a fare with one of the dreaded tuk tuk men, we asked to be taken to a hotel in our guide book. unfortuna...

Alison: Pursat is your run of the mill Cambodian town with not an awful lot to see but many tourists come here as a base to visit the nearby floating village of Kampong Luong. We hired a tuk tuk to take us the 35km to the the village. It is quite a long journey to do on a tuk tuk but we made it with only one to stop to cool the engine down!Kampong Luong is a Vietnamese floating village and has a huge population of 10,000 people. The village is situated on the Ton...

Nigel: Battambang is a small town between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Whilst we were there we decided to go on an organised tour ran by the hotel that we were staying in. You had a choice of going on either a motor bike with a guide, or a tuk tuk. We bravely opted for the bikes. We set off from the hotel around 10am and made sure we were provided with safety helmets for the journey, even though Alison does look like she is about to do an armed robbery. Our guides ...

Alison: Angkor Wat is the main attraction in Cambodia and it is basically a complex of very old temples found just outside Siam Reap. The largest and best preserved temple is the one that is actually the Angkor Wat and it is this temple which features on the Cambodian flag. There are many more temples dotted around the grounds of various sizes and most people don't see all of them unless you are a real enthusiast (Nigel loves a good temple spree but I had to ...

Nigel: Our entry into Cambodia didn't start all that great. We were entering the country from Thailand via the overland border crossing and we had read that the crossing that we were using was infamous for scams with visa's . We nearly got scammed on 2 occasions but luckily we had prior knowledge so we were able to get out of them. The first occasion was by local Thai people acting as official immigration workers. After about 5 minutes of them persisting ...