Arriving in Cambodia is a bit of a relief from the mania of Bangkok - it's a bit more relaxed and feel less hassled in streets. First stop is Siem Reap where we stay a couple of nights - went to a night market and did some haggling, and used a Dr Fish pool where you put your feet in a pool with all these little fish that eat the dead skin off your feet, tickles like hell at first but you get used to it after a bit and it does work!
Had a 4am (...yes 4AM) wake up call to go visit the Angkor temples and see the sunrise over Angkor Wat which unfortunately was slightly disappointing as was cloudy but we spent the morning exploring massive city of ancient temples including the jungle temple where Tomb Raider was filmed which of course inspired some Lara Croft esq exploring and climbing through tunnels and over massive stone blocks!
In afternoon got old boat up Le Tonle Sac river to a foating village which is mainly Vietnamese illegal immigrants who have fled communist Vietnam but Cambodia don't want due to the many conflicts between Cambodia/Vietnam over the years so these masses of people have nowhere to goand so have built a floating village on the lake. It's pretty desperate and felt weird being there as it's not exactly a tourist attraction, more of an eye opener. Kids row up to your boat begging for 1 dollar or mothers with a baby in their arms, at least 2 or 3 race over when they see the boat and hover at the edges begging, all just saying "1 dollarrr" over and over again which gets to be a pretty haunting sound after a while.
When we reached Phnom Penh, the capital city we went to the S21 Genocide museum and Killing Fields to find out about Kmer Rouge regime where half the Cambodian population was wiped out in 3 yrs. It was quite a sobering, sometimes tear jerking experience and i found it quite shocking as i knew so little about it prior to the tour and it was only 30 odd yrs ago so it's still very raw there. Of the thousands of Cambodian men, women & children that passed through the S21 prison (there were another 166 prisons) only 7 people survived, 4 are still alive and one of them was at S21 as he spends a lot of time there trying to raise awareness. It was quite humbling to meet and shake hands with him standing outside the 2mtr x 1mtr cell where he was imprisoned for torture.

After the few days of culture shock and seeing the sad side of Cambodia, we hit the beach town of Sinoukville to pick our spirits up :-) Got a boat out to a couple of smaller islands off the coast for snorkelling and stopped at one called Bamboo Island where we walked across the island, through the jungle to reach this picture perfect deserted beach, i felt like i was on Lost! Everyone was really looking forward to our couple days on the beach and it's been a lot of fun playing in the sea in th day and dancing away the evenings in beach bars. Now all refreshed and revitalised ready for Vietnam!