On our first full day in Bangkok (second time round) we were up nice and early so that we could visit the Chatuchak Weekend Market and do some serious shopping. Chatuchak is the biggest market I have ever seen and absolutely brilliant; you can buy everything there. We spent several happy hours getting lost in it but when we found ourselves peering down airless row after airless row going 'I'm SURE we've been here before' (which happened around the same time we be...

On Tuesday we spent the day relaxing on the beaches of Koh Chang again. The whole place was gearing up for a full moon beach party that was taking place the next night so we were a little sad to be leaving the next day for Pattaya. We consoled ourselves with the knowledge that, whilst undeniably tacky, Pattaya is supposed to be THE place to party. In fact, we decided to stay two nights there - one to get very, very drunk and one to recover. That was the plan anyw...

On our last day in Siem Reap we (rather randomly) went to a crocodile farm. It was a bit overpriced and cramped but worth it as we were still upset at seeing no crocodiles on our crocodile cruise in Australia. There were hundreds of crocs at the farm, ranging from teeny weeny baby ones all the way up to scary-looking 80 year old beasts with ridiculously over the top jaw-spans. We arrived as they were feeding the baby crocs kilos and kilos of fish, which was inter...

After checking out of our hotel in Sihanoukville, we caught a minibus to Kampot. We went there as it is meant to be less touristy and more like the 'real' Cambodia, but there were loads of tourists and expats so I'm not sure that's true anymore! Anyhow, Kampot is quite a small, dusty, cute riverside town. At night all the dogs in the neighbourhood howl like crazy, like something out of 101 dalmations. The electricity cuts out at least once a day. The roundabouts ...

It took almost six hours for our bus to reach Sihanoukville from Phnom Penh. We'd booked a hotel in advance and felt a bit out of place when we turned up, with our sweaty faces and our backpacks, as it looks like a 4 star kind of place even though it wasn't expensive. Felt a bit better when we realised that there is a building site next door, no plugs in the bathtub and that the drawerhandles fall off when you open them too energetically - perhaps we are the usua...