Ele Fun Times As we had managed to not see any elephants in Thailand or Laos we had booked on to a trip to visit a wildlife sanctuary about an hour outside of Phnom Penh.The sanctuary has rescued the animals there from poachers in Cambodia and they have a huge variety with elephants, tigers, crocs and bears to name a few with 90% of them being returned to the wild.Our main reason for going was to see the elephants, as we hadn't experienced them before and we w...

Poor Phnom Penh Once we were satisfied our heads were still attached to our necks after a very bumpy bus journey we disembarked the bus as we had arrived in Phnom Penh!First impressions were the craziness of the place - motorbikes, pedestrians, buses, cars, tuk tuks and bicycles all vying for the same piece of road and no one giving in!We would be sure to encounter this later during our stay in Phnom Penh but for now we settled for a tuk tuk to our guesthouse!...

Second chance at sunrise Our last day in Siem Reap and we were up at 4.30am again in the hope that this time we would catch a good sunrise.We cycled as fast as possible (legs burning from 2 days exercise after months of none) and as we rode past the lake the sun was starting to rise giving a beautiful view to our journey.We made it to Angkor Wat just in time for a pink cloud backdrop to the iconic temple with its reflection in the water.We took in the view for a...

On yer bike With two days left on our pass we had decided to have our eggs and baguette early (4.30am) and cycle to the temples for sunrise (we would look around the temples saving Angkor Wat for the last day). There were several other people up with the same plan - a Canadian with his girlfriend and an English girl whose friend was in bed sick so we decided to stick together to get there on our rickety bikes (again no street lighting!). This, however made for a...

"When you come back, you buy from me….OK ?!" Siem Reap (which has to be said in the drawl accent of the man we met on the bus in Laos) was a place we were really looking forward to for the obvious highlight of Angkor Wat. The bus we had taken from Laos took its time with the usual drawn out stops and changeovers (especially at the border with Cambodia where dollars were added on for everything including having your temperature taken) so by the time ...