For a country that is incredibly poor we have been a little surprised at how reasonably well the road from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh was, considering the tortous route we had when first entering the country. PP is reasonably well maintained compaired to the rest of Cambodia (it's all relative) but this has probably been as a result of the fact that this is the home of the Royal Family and the enormous amounts of money that have been brought into the country by fore...

The route back into the old French empire of Indo-China has to be the worst border crossing we have experienced to date - by far. The bus journey to the Cambodian border town of Poipet from Bangkok, was painless enough, even though we had to make a 4.30am start. Even getting across the officialdom of the border was not too difficult. The official price for a visa is $20, but we endied up having to pay 1000 Thai baht (about $28) and the difference goes into...