Jo and I were up pretty early and after a rushed breakfast, we boarded what was to be our final bus trip, to Phnom Penh - the capital of Cambodia. After a five and a half hour journey (probably our best bus trip to date), we arrived in Phnom Penh, dumped our backpacks at our guesthouse - the Mad Monkey - and went off to see S21. For those of you who don't know your Cambodian history - Security Prison 21, or 'S21' is the prison where victims of Pol Pot's Khmer R...

As I am typing this we are sitting right on the beachfront, having just watched a stunning sunset and listening to the waves lapping on the beach whilst sipping our Mojito's. Absolute bliss. One of those perfect summer evenings… This is a far cry from our experiences when we arrived here 3 days ago via overnight bus from Siem Reap. Cambodia's only has one night bus company, which is supposedly VIP and luxury, but makes Vietnam's night buses seem like luxury ...

Scambodia! We arrived in Siem Reap via a very "not so" tourist bus. The guy who was supposed to pick us up from our hostel to take us to the bus station was 20 minutes late and the bus he took us to was DEFINITELY NOT a tourist bus. After much deliberation and hand gesturing with the bus driver, we boarded the bus, only to be met by a sea of curious Cambodians faces. I think that the fact that we were along for the ride surprised these locals just as much as i...