A long bus journey brought us North West across Cambodia from Phnom Penh to the town of Siem Reap. The road was appalling and the bus had certainly seen better days. However, the bus had been modified to meet the needs of the modern Cambodian traveller and featured a TV, Karaoke DVD player and flashing lights all the way up the bus. We were subjected to loud cambodian karaoke music and locals singing along for the duration of the 6 hour journey, stopping only to ...

Cambodia only recently opened its doors to the outside world and whilst tourism here is in its infancy, infrastructure poor, crime and rip offs common (it aint called Scambodia for nothing) we were eager to travel through the country to understand its turbulent past and see the place. An estimated 3 million people (half of the population) were executed or died in forced labour camps under Pol Pots Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979. In his bid to creat...