Siem Reap as a city is incredible. The journey there, and our first experience of the locals; not quite as impressive.

We arrived at the Cambodian border in good time, small and bumpy minibus ride but really not too bad. We were all hustled off the bus, and walked across the border, without our passports, as our guide took them to stamp for us. No-one batted an eyelid, and we were sat in Cambodia for quite a while before we got them back...

We then sat there for another long while, waiting for our bus to arrive. 3 hours later, still not arrived, we wondered quite how or when we might get anywhere in this country. In ones and twos, the people of our group were slowly taken off into different buses or minibuses and then it was just us, a Japanese couple of girls, and a German guy. When we were eventually shown to a minibus, we were on and off more times than Sean thinks about playing hearts, until all 17 of us fitted into the 12 seater minibus. I know, that math's doesn't actually work. So an uncomfortable 5 hours later, we were off and swapped onto a much larger, and more roomy, bus. Only an hour or so and we arrived, very late into Siem Reap. Not caring or knowing where we were going, we let the tuk-tuk driver take us to his guesthouse, which was actually not bad at all and we collapsed, absolutely exhausted into the comfiest bed we have had since Christmas.

The next morning we moved to a cheaper, and less comfortable guesthouse and spent the day lazing around town. There are loads of Western places to eat, so the food was great. There are a lot of landmine victims around Siem Reap, selling books, begging, fixing shoes, it's really sad to see, and we bought more than our fair share (and for more than a fair price) of books and postcards.

We met Tori and Tyler and spent a few days around Siem Reap and Angkor Wat. It's so great to be back travelling with people (means we don't have to talk to each other anymore....jokes jokes). We spent a morning around the old market, and Tori bagged a few bargains.

One afternoon Sean and I went to see a local orphanage, and accidentally got roped into teaching English for a couple of hours. It was a massive shock and really thrown into the deep end. The group we had didn't speak much English, so we were teaching them the English alphabet. At first it was difficult to explain what we wanted to do, but once they saw what we were doing, they were all actually pretty good at knowing the different letters; they've clearly done this before! We also taught them 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' which was funny to watch.

We had some amazing nachos in a Mexican restaurant. It's been a long time, we both miss Buddies quite a lot (no they weren't as good as Buddies but it was a real treat) and we also went back with Tori and Tyler and we had several frozen margaritas! YUM.

All in all, a quite varied city. A real mix of Cambodia, from evidence of the war, to the ancient history, to the modern take, and where the country might be heading next. Onto the capital next; Phnom Penh!