On the 13th July we headed south-west from Phnom Penh and arrived in Sihanoukville. We had been looking forward to relaxing on the beach here but unfortunately we arrived to grey skies. We walked down to the beach though in search of food and had a delicious bbq meal. However, before we had made it into the restaurant we were found ourselves surrounded by a group of young girls and women trying to sell us things. Situations like these in Cambodia are quite co...

We arrived in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, in the evening of the 12th July. We had dinner over looking the Mekong River, which at night was a pretty and peaceful view. I had the next morning free and so I explored the city by foot and went to the central markets and back to the river. Although I wasn’t so impressed by it’s murkiness in daylight! In the afternoon we went to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum which is based in the secondary school t...

On the 8th July it was time to head back to Bangkok in order to start my tour to Cambodia. I met my 14 fellow travellers and tour guide over a traditional Thai dinner. The following morning we set off early at 7.30am to Poipet which is the border crossing between Thailand and Cambodia. The border formalities and queues were quite tedious but we all made it safely into Cambodia. The landscape was immediately very striking: extremely flat green paddy fields stretch...