Day 11 - Another early start with a 7am minivan to the capital Phnom Penh. A bit apprehensive after yesterday's journey and the roads would be worse as it was raining. Again the van was full but we had paid for 3 seats to give us just a little extra room which basically means they only put 3 people on the 3 seats in back row instead of the usual 4. Still a squash but better than it could have been! Not a bad journey to be honest, we did stop halfway to get some ...

Day 10 - 'The Sebastien Vettel Experience'. We got up for breakfast early to be ready to leave to get the tuk tuk to Stung Treng centre for 08:30. Arriving where the minivan would pick us up and here is where the fun started! I am guessing the van was a 10 seater, tops and when it arrived to pick us up it had about 7 or 8 in it already. You would have thought we'd be the last but oh no, you'd be wrong, very wrong indeed. As we climbed in, we noticed the whole ba...

Day 9 - A lazy day! After another sleepless night due to the temperature in the bungalow, we stayed at the lodge all day only venturing down to the restaurant for breakfast, lunch and dinner and an afternoon drink to watch the sun go down. We had breakfast again out on the balcony and then retired to the lodge to read and chill out. Lunch was served in the restaurant itself which was nice as it would have been impossible to be outside. Today was most definitely t...

Day 8 - An early rise to go down for breakfast at 06:30 and check out before getting a tuk tuk to one of the bus stations, although we weren't 100% sure which one. The one we thought we would be dropped at didn't materialise and we were dropped at a different ViP bus station, again one shack building and one parking space! We grabbed our tickets to Stung Treng and off we set on a coach only a quarter full. A few minutes in and a guy who worked on the coach approa...

Day 7 - The day of the big storm......With our fears of typhoon Haiyan lessening by the hour as it seemed to have tracked north and would hit Vietnam sometime today, we awoke to a cloudless sky. Wandered down for a random breakfast of rice, noodles, sausages and fried egg on toast. The plan for the day was to hire some bikes and bike over to the large Buddha on the other side of the Mekong river. First job though was to sort out our bus for tomorrow morning to ...