Arrived in Siem Reap yesterday (26th Sept) and checked in to our guesthouse...a great place near the Old Market. We went for the $1 a night option...a raised wooden dorm room that is like a treehouse with big mosi nets and bamboo divides, it's brilliant...'Lord of the Flies Chic'!! Siem Reap has a very different feel to Pnom Penh, with new hotels catering for the tourist market springing up left, right and center. It feels wrong to have so many large,...

22 Sept 2006 Jumped on the bus from Saigon...and met Marielle and Meg (two american girls who Ryan and I met whilst hanging out at the 5am noodle restaurant in Nah Trang!) on board which was great. After an easy boarder crossing we arrived in Pnom Penh around 7pm (the touts were already knocking on the bus windows as it pulled in!) We all jumped in a tuc tuc and headed to the Lakeside Guesthouse on Boeng Kak Lake. A really great friendly paid back place with a se...