Hello Folks. Given that we have seen pretty much all we want to see around Phnom Penh and we are starting our homeward journey on Wednesday, this Blog is likely to become a bit dull - or more dull - from now on. This has felt like a much longer trip than the calendar would suggest - not a bad thing I hasten to add. My point is we have much less interest in seeing the sights - unless it's the sight of a recently demolished plate or the bottom of a glass. We di...

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...

Desley was not feeling well today with some sort of head / chest cold or worse. Our best guess is she caught it from a little girl who stood on the seat between her Parents behind us on the bus here from Siem Reap - she coughed through the gap between our seats right onto the back of Desley's head for 4 hours or so. Her Mum and Dad didn't seem to notice. We are leaving here for Phnom Penh tomorrow morning. This time on a 10 seater Hiace Van or similar. It shou...

In honour of our PM knighting a Prince for largely keeping out of our way for six decades - we pretty much stayed indoors on the 26th. This was necessary as the laughter of the many non-Australian Tourists can be downright cruel. The morning sun on the 27th heralded a 35 degree day and that, coupled with the incredibly loud morning assembly music from the school next door, saw us up and about earlier than the optimum time of 7:30 a.m. Off again with Borith and...