We arrived in Sihanoukville late afternoon so we went straight to the hostel we were recommended by a few people, Monkey Republic, we also wanted to stay here as we knew this is the place you could book Monkey Island which is a tiny resort on a remote island called Koh Rong. You can't prebook this hostel online so you have to hope for the best when you get there. We were lucky and got a 4 bed private bungalow with en suite, the last one in the hostel. We wa...

Today we woke up and had breakfast before going outside at 11am where DJ was waiting! He then took us on a 40 minute Tuk Tuk ride through the city to The Killing Fields… A bit of background about this place; in 1975 a political leader called Pol Pot and his army called Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh and terrorised the place. He wanted to enforce communism and thought education etc was not needed. He believed there didn't need to be schools etc and tha...

Today we got a 6 hour bus to Phnom Penh in Cambodia… which we were very excited about as we have heard good things about this country. Apparently the people are a lot friendlier and have a completely different attitude towards tourists than Vietnam. Just before we got to the border we gave the bus conductor $25 US Dollars ( for our visa ) and our passports… he then hopped on a moped and sped off ahead of us. When we arrived at the boarder everyone just ...