The Silver Pagoda within the Royal Palace grounds is a very note-worthy place and I realise I haven't given any interesting details of it. Here are a few bits:- It is so named due to it's floor rather than its exterior (unlike the various Golden Temples around the World - the one in Amritsar, India particularly). The floor consists of over 5,000 silver tiles weighing 1kg each. Most of it is covered in rather nice carpets for protection. You can see and touch ...

The road trip from Battambang to Phnom Penh took 5 hours. We had a newish Ford Transit 'Bus', all done up inside and fitted out to carry 9 people plus 2 extra in the front - although those seats were occupied by employees of Mekong Express. Our Driver was keen to keep to the timetable so we pretty much flew over the largely poor quality roads. As Des & I were in the rear seats we felt all of the bumps unfortunately. We are staying at the Hotel Salita on Roa...