My last day here and it's off with David and Soriya first heading south on route 6 towards phnom penh to see David's new house. We pick up his wife and son close to the local market and turn off the main road down a dusty road, through rice fields and sparsely clustered houses eventually arriving at his newly built house. He has managed to find the funds to buy the small piece of land and built this modest two story brick and concrete house. The setting is lovely...

Today is a day without temples... Cambodia is entering the cool season, but the temperatures right now are still pretty hot during the day and yesterday I found it tough going around lunchtime so opted to relax around town today and do a bit of shopping. This morning I woke early and went to the old market to have a look. There are a lot of stalls selling the same Bayon face carvings and other stuff, a lot of it not great quality, many stalls selling t-shirts an...

The changes around the town are striking. All of the building projects that looked like they were underway a few years ago and then stalled because of GFC have been quickly finished in the last year. Many new malls and apartment buildings have sprung up, the riverside walks have been freshly repaved and the town feels a bit more polished. Although it looks bustling with more cars around, I would say there are not so many tourists, although they say numbers are u...