While spending my time in siem reap between hangovers and temples, me gem, seb and anth went to check out the floating village with new arrival to the room Sunil. It took an hours tuk tuk drive out the city to cheong ness where the floating village was and after paying our admission we were put in motorbikes to get to the boats, weaving in and out on a muddy and bumpy road which at one point included cattle dodging as the docile creatures were drove at head firs...

Angkor what? We all had our alarms set and woke up at around 4.30 am, frog the tuk tuk guy took us off to Angkor wat, it was only a 15-20 minute journey so it wasn't too far but because the sun rises pretty early here at like 5.30am we had to get through in plenty of time. It was still pitch black when we arrived at the Angkor wat temple, but people were already flooding in, you could see on e outset large pillars of the temple and it was exciting to see how t...

My second stop in Cambodia was Siem reap, which is most famous for the temples of Angkor which I was really excited to see since its apparently one of the 8 natural wonders of the world. It took seven hours on the bus and literally 5 minutes after I checked in I made friends with 3 people going out to dinner and booked to go see the sun rise at Angkor wat at 5am the next morning! Siem reap the city itself is pretty cool. It's actually pretty small but full of ...

After S-21 it was time to check out the killing fields, I met up with Tasso once again and we also went with a lad called Charlie and headed over by tuk tuk to choeung ek just outside the city. This area used to be an orchard but for around 4 years it was used as a place for execution. This tour was a bit different as we had an audio guide instead, so basically after we got the ticket we got out own set of headphones and a remote. There are sign posts in the gro...

When I came from Australia to Vietnam it was a huge culture shock and from Vietnam to Cambodia it felt like another massive change again. This country has gone through an awful lot after civil war, famine and genocide and you can still tell that 35 years on the country is still recovering in different ways. The poverty is clear to see and there are a lot more beggars, just after we got past the border and stopped for lunch a child was hanging next to our bus wit...