We arrived in Siem Reap late yesterday afternoon after 'a journey from hell'. We had been lucky with our previous bus trips and not had many problems, unfortunately our good luck ran out on this trip. Everthing started out ok and we were picked up as arranged at 6.30 am in Kratie for our trip to Siem Reap. That was the best part of the trip as it went down hill from then. There were four of us travelling and when the bus arrived it has seen better days. It ...

So what have we been doing since we arrived in Cambodia? Well we left our rather grotty hotel room in Phnom Penh and took an early morning mini-bus ride to Kratie, a town to the east of Cambodia along the bank's of the Mekong flowing down from Laos. Kratie is famous for its fresh water river dolphins, something we have decided not to go see as the water is very brown and only the humps of the river dolphins are visible in the murky water. We are in Kratie to h...

Phnom Penh At Phnom Penh we were met by the owner of the airbnb in a Tuc Tuc and taken to the room. Our initial impression was it would do but after we had closed all the windows we realised it was full of mosquitos and there was nowhere to hang the mozzie net so Chris spent the next couple of hours hunting them down! I opened a draw and a cockroach scuttled across the back, then I opened the wardrobe and another one ran across the floor. Unfortunately they c...