Sihanoukville is a very touristy beach town and at first glance looks very similar to Chaweng on Ko Samui except this had even more sunbeds! The sea was clear, calm and the sand was beige. Hawkers, beggars and cute children who should be at school, all wanted our money and after narrowly avoiding most, we succumbed to a manicure/pedicure at sunset by a Vietnamese lady. We ate on the beach that night and watched a group of young children set off fireworks into the...

For once our journey was non-eventful and we arrived in Kep happy and eager to cool off in the sea! It had been 6 weeks since we last saw the sea so we were more than excited! We had lunch at the guesthouse situated on the edge of the Kep National Park, and then cycled down the hill to the beach. Well actually only one of the free bikes worked so Oli pedalled and I sat on the makeshift seat over the back wheel. It was the weekend so we were sharing the sea with s...

Battambang was a short 2 hours away from Siem Reap. We took a 'share taxi' which had Oli, me and a local in the back, the driver, and then two more locals sharing the front passenger seat. Apparently this was quite rare as usually they fit 4 in the back and then another person wedged between the drivers door and the driver! Once there in Battambang we walked around the town, looking at the old colonial buildings and the old railway station stuck at 8:02. The next...

The journey from Don Det to Siem Reap was hopefully the worst we were going to experience. Long (19hours) and we were conned (air con 'broke') are the best ways to describe it. My first impressions of Cambodia were not great at all. Thank goodness we had a 5 nights in a nice hotel with a pool waiting for us. After a morning by the pool, we became affiliated with a tuk tuk driver named Song and went to buy our 3 day pass for the Angkor Archaeological Park. Aware t...