It's time to say goodbye to Laos which has been a quick 5 day visit. I wish I had more time to see this beautiful country and travel further south but time is seriously ticking away fast now. So this little hobo needs to keep on moving, I'm really excited to be going to Cambodia and hoping that this will be the highlight of the trip (although doubt it will beat Pai, it will take a lot to beat that place).

My backpack feels 20% heavier then when I got out here, I need to stop buying clothes!! It's just so cheap out here, although all I've brought is fab for travelling but I'd look a bit of a fool wearing it at home. I've picked up enough magnets on the way to open a magnet shop (Aunty Sandra's fault) and jewellery is also becoming a collection piece.

Before leaving Laos I headed back to the market to get my mango, pineapple & banana smoothie and a chicken and bacon baguette. Good breakfast!!! I went to the same lady as I have before and she remembered what I had ordered the previous day and as I started ordering said 'same, same as yesterday'. I must have an unforgettable face!!!

I had booked a tuk tuk to the airport via the hostel, the hostel staff were convinced I would need to leave at 11:30 to be there in 'plenty' of time. I was thinking more like 11:00, but hey what do I know. The tuk tuk arrived at 11:45, whilst I was having a meltdown that I was going to miss my flight. I should have known really this is Laos PDR (Please Don't Rush). I made it to the airport in time and headed to check in. I had no ticket, had given no passport details when I booked the flight just my name and was totally confused about how my flight was actually booked, convinced i will get to the airport and there would be no flight for me. Thankfully it was all fine and check in was a breeze, I passed through passport control was stamped out of the country and sat in the tiny 4 gate airport awaiting my flight to Siem Reap!! A bit like everything in Laos the plane was late, it's that whole PDR attitude again. A bonus was clean 'nice' toilets with the added luxury of toilet paper. So I wasted sometime folding up bits of toilet paper and putting it in my bag, this stuffs like gold dust, you never know when you will see it again so you have to take full advantage when you find some.

The plane is the smallest plane I've ever seen, it has little propellors and everything. I wasn't convinced the thing would even get up in the air and for the whole flight was trying to forget that the last Lao Airline plane to crash was October 2013 in to the Mekong River killing all passengers and crew - eeekkkk!! I'm pleased to report I survived, I even got a meal on the plane!! On arrival at siem reap I was temperature checked for Ebola again, I am losing count on how many forms and temperature checks about Ebola I have gone through. With the all clear headed to immigration, this is when I realise I have forgotten to get some US dollars to pay for my visa. Little bit of a panic and with some very sour faced Cambodian immigration officers who were clearly not impressed they sent me off to the ATM. Visa in hand I pass through with no further issues.

The hostel had sent a tuk tuk driver to collect me, he was waiting in arrivals with my name on a board (I've always wanted one of them), first impressions of Cambodia?? It is such a poor country you can see poverty wherever you look and it's really sad. It makes you grateful for what you have, it's worse then Laos. Once at the hostel I check in and book to go to Ankor Wat for sunrise which means I have to be up at 4:30am. My tuk tuk driver, Simon is taking me which is booked through the hostel.

I met an American girl here (no idea what her name was) and went in to ge main town with her for food and a couple of drinks. I've bailed early due to the early start. The centre of siem reap is crazy, the Main Street is 'pub street' it is full of restaurants, bars and clubs and if you saw no other part of Cambodia you wouldn't believe the poverty here. Although the large number of begging children pleading for food does give it away a bit. I managed to find my hostel but appeared to take a long detour getting very lost on the way back. It's now time for sleep before my early start.