Hi! I have had a fantastic week! But have been extremely busy. I went to Kampot last Saturday (on the public bus which took over 7 hours!!!) to meet Katie who is Helena's cousin. Katie runs the Cambodian arm of a UK charity called Epic Arts which encourages integration of disabled people into the community through art. In Kampot the charity has a cafe which is run by a mixture of deaf and disabled Cambodians. The plan was that I was going to go there and ru...

Hi!I had a nice time on my last day in Siem Reap. We went to Taprohm - the temple with all the trees growing in, around and on top of it. It is where Tomb Raider was filmed apparently. It is a massive building, there is interesting stuff to see everywhere you look.The day after we took the bus to Kompong Cham (taking about 6 hours or so!). On the way we stopped off at some services. The service places are very different than back home. You get off the bus and imm...

Hi! I really enjoyed my couple of days in Battambong. It is a quiet place, but the people are so friendly! All the kids wave at you and talk to you - I felt like a minor celebrity! One day we hired motor bikes and went out in the country stopping off at places of interest. We saw a fish paste factory (the smelliest factory I have been in, and I've been in a few!), a pineapple farm (where we had lunch and quite possibly the freshest pineapple I will ever eat...

Hi, After getting over the initial culture shock I'm having a great time here. I have learnt a little about Cambodia by going to the Killing Field and to Tuol Seng (Khmer Rouge Prison 21). The guide lived through the Khmer Rouge period and could tell us alot about what went on (at the start of the period there were about 7 m Cambodian people, but 3m of these died under the regime - now more than 50% of the population is under the age of 20). The regime was ...

Hi! I arrived in Cambodia this morning. It seems alot different to Thailand.......a lot poorer. In comparison the areas I saw in Thailand (apart from the villages) were fairly similar to the west in that the streets were fairly tidy there were western brands clearly on sale (there was even a number of Boots shops). One thing I did notice in Thailand was older Western men with Thai girls. Its so sad - one time I saw a man of about 80 with a girl no older than m...