I departed Kompong Cham and headed east to the wild countryside of Cambodia with promises of waterfalls, mountains and elephants. It's not a place that a lot of travellers go to so I thought it would be a good place to explore. Some of the road had a surface but most was still being built, in face in places it felt like we were just driving acroos a building sight. Then we reached Sen Monoram town and it too looked like a building sight with roads being dug up...

Heavens! Leaving Kratie was a joke. I bought a minibus ticket from the same man who organised the motorbike excursion. Or so I thought. It was meant to pick me up from the hotel at 7 am but it didn't. I thought that man was dodgy as he had unfeasibly long fingernails and went by the name "Mr Lucky". At 7.20 he turned up and said the bus was at the station so he put me and all my luggage onto his friend's moto and I was rapidly taken to meet it. The...

I finally dragged myself away from the relaxing Don Khone and over the border into Cambodia. The border crossing was a bit of a joke which involved paying not only for the visa but for the stamp, the taking of your temperature, a charge for not having a passport photo (they were disappointed when you showed that you did have one) etc etc a dollar here two dollars there.... Anyway back on the bus and I was next to Cambodian who worked for the government agricul...