cambodia has been a lovely place - great people and such basic lives in stilt houses. PP is slightly different - busy, garbage problems and children urinating in the street. However there are many sights and experiences here which many miss heading straight to angkor.we had a lovely walk along the river and stayed at lakeside #10. All the hostels back onto the lakeand have restaurants on stilts with fairy lights (and very cheap beer!) from where we watched sunset...

So at 5am this morning we awoke grumpily and then realised our tuk tuk driver had overslept so with no loyalty we hired another one to take us out to the temples. First stop was the biggy - Angkor Wat - which we hit for a glorious sunrise. We spent two hours hear in the good lighting of early morning before completing the "mini loop" which stopped at the Bayon with it's 54 stone pillars each with a face looking to each cardinal point and the rest of...

We felt we had had enough bad luck on boats so we opted for the bus from PP to siem riep. At a fifth of the price of the boat it was a much better deal. So us and the belgians (did you know french fries came from there!) headed on the 7am bus north. There is a lot of poverty, children begging and grabbing on to your legs. Mel bought postcards from one girl because she could tell us the total population of london and the prime ministers name. This is very str...

so we took our next adventure- 2 days up the mekong delta to cambodia. It began with very touristy stops at a coconut candy makers and honey tea. Then on for fruit tasting and local music. We also got to wear conical hats for the first time! We then took a very small bumpy minibus for what we thought was to be 2 hours and ended up being 5 including 2 ferry crossings. Thankfully we were with a british primary school teacher and clinical psychologist so they cou...

So after another overnight bus we arrived in saigon/ho chi minh city. We managed to get ourselves a hotel which served us scrambled eggs on arrival and our room as man u tv so stu was happy! We spent the day walking around the city - seeing notre dame, the town hall, the market, the river. Had a lovely dinner of pork in caramlised fish sauce. The food here is fab. Nothing has yet to live up to the vietnamese claypot though! Today we visited the cu chi tunnels. ...