5th July Sihanoukville. Well we retreated from the city for some sun and fun after a depressing few days. Sihanoukville lovely place stayed at Monkey Republic where we stayed for 4 days. The heavens opened and never stopped vicious stroms and torrential rain couldn't get out anywhere. 3rd day it eased slightly and we are back on mopeds to see local area Krong Koh Kong waterfalls as if we havent seen enough water over the last days. and yet another WAT lots of f...

1st July visit to the killing fields Choeung Ek. Arrived yesterday prietty sad place many beggers on the streets most are war victims or land mine victims. our first ride out on the Mopeds (getting used to this now) We are off to visit the killing fields. As we arrive you can just feel the sadness of this place. Our guide was the main man who has shown around Princess Diana which started her campaign against land mines in Cambodia. Man this place is horrible as...

29th June Time in Battambang Out today with locals 2 guys on mopeds who took us around local areas first stop another WAT!! Wat Phnom Sampeau. This one is located at the top of hill nice steady climb on foot. Reaching the top our guide is talking about POLPOT and his terror years. He showed us into caves where bodies were thrown dead or alive. very sad place. next stop Wat Banan This has 5 towers like Angkor Wat and the guide reckons it was a prototype mmh we ...

21st-25th June We start with the journey from HELL!! well not really it was hard, worse once over the border. We are hearded into small bus with NO air conditioning only to travel 152km mmh not bad but the road was awful as many potholes as there was clay. heavy traffic going always better stick myself into a book and dont worry about any of it. Our choice I hear you say and Yes it was we wanted the experience and BOY we got it!! It gets better after 13hrs trav...

26th June Siem reap Battambang 05:30 and we are leaving Siem moving on to Battambang via boat on the River Sangker passing floating villages of ChongKneas. The bus takes us to the local Marina,mmh lots of wooden boats that look like they will never float guess what?? Yeah we are on one of them as we climb over 3/4 to get to our sea fairing machine our bags are dumped on the back and we are off down the river. There are only 6 of us on board so should be nice co...