Our Final Week in the Kingdom After our elephant adventure we headed to Kratie, a town on the Mekong river where you can see the rare irawaddy dolphins. We spent 2 days here where we hired a motorbike for a day to drive out of town, boarded a small wooden boat and taken out into the middle of the Mekong river for about an hour. As the driver knew where to look for them, he had a keen eye for spotting them even from a distance. They never got that close and we co...

Elephant Trek Day! We got our guide to drive us up to a small farming village called Pouton. A very rural and simplistic countryside village with baby piglets and chicks roaming the dirt track. This was to be the setting for the start of our elephant adventure. Upon arriving we were welcomed into the elephants owners hut. One big room and an added on shed for cooking. In the shed a woman was plucking the feathers off a newly dead chicken ready for the evenings d...

Mondulkiri Province - Sen Monorom A nine hour bus ride brought us to Mondulkiri Province found in the north-east region of Cambodia. On our journey to Sen Monorom we stopped off for a toilet stop. There were a few stalls at this rest stop and we were shocked to see they were selling fried tarantulas, crickets and crabs. They had a large bowl on the floor infront of the fried tarantulas with dozens of tarantulas that were still alive! Lots of other tourists were ...

Teaching English Our 2nd try at volunteering was with a charity called 'Big Heart Project' run by a guy called Adrian who is a suprising 21 years old. We got a bus from Phnom Penh on Monday and started our volunteering straight away. We got picked up by Piseth at the drop off, we then piled two rucksacks and three people on a tiny motorbike. The 10 minute ride down the long red sandy road was a great change to city life. Stilt houses made out of wood and corraga...

Killing Fields There are thousands more killing fields just like the one we visited all over Cambodia. Many still havent been discovered as they are unreachable due to land being scattered with mines. On entering the killing field we were first met with a 30m high built monument made out of smooth sandstone. On each of the 4 sides of the monument the walls were made of glass so you could view the contents within. Tiered on about 8 levels were glass shelves that...