Day 18 - Luckily not such an early start as yesterday as we'd booked the tuk tuk for 08:30. Sam duly arrived and we set off for our mammoth 2 hour tuk tuk ride. Bit hair raising at times as the main road was really busy and large trucks were thundering past at speed, not sure our little tuk tuk could have taken much of an impact! Sam is quite a sensible driver though which helps. Arriving completely wind swept at Beng Mealea which is a temple that has just been...

Day 17 - 04:30, yes 04:30 alarm call for a 05:00 tuk tuk. We had already organised breakfast the night before and it was duly ready for us at just before 5am. Off we set in the pitch black for Angkor Wat and on the way came one of Alice's greatest quotes, "What if we are alone in the park?" Rolling up to the car park, funnily enough we weren't the only ones looking to watch the sunrise today, there were hundreds of people. We entered the outer wall and looked for...

Day 16 - Grabbed breakfast quite early as our tuk tuk was picking us up at 08:00. Nice breakfast with eggs how you wanted, a large French baguette to munch on and lots of fruit. Guess they give you quite a bit to keep you going whilst strolling round all day. We set off with 'Sam' our tuk tuk driver and the plan for the day was to visit about 6 or 7 temples (the 'grand circuit') but none of them Angkor Wat as we wanted to leave this until tomorrow. The temple s...

Day 15 - After booking the bus for 13:00 we had all morning to stroll round and tick off a couple of things we wanted to see in town. Breakfast taken at the rooftop restaurant of the hotel where I had, and I have to admit for the first time, an omelette pizza. Just had to order it to see what it was like. Alice went conservative with banana pancake with honey. Packed our bags and left them at reception to wander to the old Battambang train station that is now de...