The bus from Kampot took ages to get back to Phnom Penh, partly because it kept stopping in the countryside to pick people up and drop them off, and partly because once we reached the city it was around 5pm and thus rush hour. It took probably the best part of an hour from the outskirts of the city to get to the bus station through the sea of tuk tuks, motorbikes and SUVs with 'LEXUS' emblazoned on the side. When we got to the bus station we were glad to get o...

We found the coach we boarded in Saigon to be clean and comfortable, with huge seats which staggeringly afforded me enough room to fit in my gangly legs. In said comfort, we set off and were soon cruising through the beautiful countryside outwith the city, comprising endless expanses of partially flooded rice paddies with the occasional distant hill jutting out of the otherwise uniformly straight horizon. Above this were gathered the most magnificent formations...