Our next stop was Siem Reap. This town is famous because of the Angkor Wat temple. We had a early start to see the temple at sunrise. I must confess I was rather underwhelmed by the sunrise. But once I got close to the temple it was pretty spectacular. We also saw Angkor Thom, Bayon, Ta Phrom, South Gate and the Terrace of the Leper King. It’s impressive seeing all these temples. They cover a huge area and it does take you back in time and one wonders how i...

We took a private bus from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The city is one of contrasts. On the waterfront of the Mekong river there are a number of western restaurants and bars. But a little off from the main street one sees the extreme poverty of Cambodia. It still suffers from the shocking Year Zero when Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge wiped out a quarter of the population. Many of Cambodia’s intellectual & political community did not survive...