We left Phnom Penh by bus and headed North West to Battambang. The plan was to get to Angkor to see the famous temples. For months we had been meeting travellers who had been there recounting amazing experiences. We took a motorbike tour in Battambang to see a temple even older than Angkor. It was a great afternoon on dusty roads both of us riding pillion on the same bike. The temple was old and in a poor state, high on a hill which had suffered heavy cannon...

Since our last postcard we have spent many lazy hours (make that days) on the beaches of Vietnam (waiting for Pete to get over bronchitus!) and then wandered the streets of Saigon, before taking a 3 day tour of the Mekong Delta on a variety of boats as we meandered into Cambodia. All very exotic and exciting. As we only have 5 more weeks, less now, it feels a bit more like a normal holiday i.e. one with a nearby end point, and so we are getting into the holi...