The thing about staying on a castaway island is that there is not much to write! I sunbathed on my back in the morning and on my front in the afternoon :) We ate 3 meals that did not disappoint, we played watch the gecko and moths again at dinner - by night 3 we worked out which table to avoid. The event of the day was discovering the geckos in the room they stay up high so you do not get near them unless they poop next to you - yup always a first time for e...

We got up rather sharply this morning as we had a room mate, of the gecko variety! We only knew he was there when he poo'ed next to me on the bed, he was above us. Yuck. This was after a rather eventful dinner where at one point we had 3 geckos above us and 3 moths, one of which swooped down on us a number of times, we are not talking household moths more mini birds!! Needless to say we had crooks in our neck by the end of the dinner. The downside of the rusti...

It was time to move on, we said goodbye about 8am and travelled by Tuck Tuck back to Kompong Thom to meet a bus to take us to Phomn Penh our ticket had the wrong date and time on it and we did not know much else but our trust in Alex came good! In fact our itinerary was not entirely accurate but we have learnt that there must be Asia time along with Asia road rulels! On that note Hayley has taken command of getting us across busy roads even if it means grabbing m...

I am back :) now where were we ? Oh yes we were just getting on the tuck tuck for an hour. It was a bumpy ride but we had a lovely guide called Alex who works for a social enterprise called Isanborei - thats for you Liz. They have identified that lots of tourists visit this area for a day to see the temple but there is so much more to see and they have worked with local families to create home stays that are western friendly - ish :) This means the local commun...

Having rested and slept a bit we were ready for round two, temples and a sunset was the brief. We have seen a lot of temples and whilst we listened politely to the explanation by Alex if we had to repeat back to him the history we would have no idea :( Still we appreciated the craftsmanship, respected them as a place of worship and appreciated their importance to the village. It was also fun cycling around them on the bikes although sand and bike is not a great ...