According to Lonely Planet (our trusty guidebook) "Siem Reap is the gateway to Cambodia's spiritual and cultural heartbeat, the temples of Angkor" and this is exactly the reason we came to Cambodia. The temples of Angkor were the capital of Cambodia during the ancient Khmer empire which ruled our most of present day Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. We arrived into Siem Reap, got a nice and cheap guesthouse and booked our tuk tuk for our 3 days ar...

And so we have arrived into another Asian country, our 7th so far. Cambodia is by far the poorest we have yet visited. The bus journey from Saigon was without great incident. Coming up to the border the bus drivers assistant tried to charge us US$25 for the Cambodian visa but we knew in advance that it only cost US$20 so we said that we would do it ourselves which he didn't feel happy. Stating that the bus would only wait 20 minutes for us he left us to it. ...