The day started with a 7am departure and a journey on a hot packsed bus with cheesy kareoke videos to Sihanoukville. The teeny hangover I had this morning potentially made this journey a whole lot worse. We arrived in Sihanoukville at lunch time. First impression were that it seemed like a nice chilled beachy place. The hotel was really chilled, and I could definately see us having some fun here. Tonight we had a seafood BBQ on the beach. It was delicious, the o...

We had a nice lie in at Siem Reap before boarding a local bus to Phnom Penh at lunchtime. This was an uncomfortable 7 hours journey on a loud bus, they beep at absolutely everybody. Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia, still in slow recovery from when the Khmer Rouge communist party tore the city apart in 1975. We arrived about 7pm to our hotel. It appeared to be a very lively city and a bit more modern to Siem Reap. We had a pretty chilled out night here aft...

A 7am departure from Bangkok, firstly a bus to Poipet (Thailand-Cambodia border). I had some issues with my visa for Cambodia because I bought it online, but I got through eventually, was a bit nerve racking though. The border crossing took a couple of hours, not only were tourists crossing the border but a lot of import trucks carrying all kinds of things, inclusing pigs squashed into trucks. The scenery changed immediately, poverty seemed much more obvious, the...