Sunday Quiet day today - went for a tuk tuk ride to the royal gardens and then a walk along the river then onto the afternoon at Pub Street. Stayed around there for dinner before heading home . Monday Grabbed a tuk tuk and went and visited the silk farm which about 15km out of Siem Reep. That was pretty interesting - so much detail put into the work that can takes months to complete. Beautiful work. That night we had dinner at the hotel and after dinner Pa...

Saturday Was supposed to have been picked up for our tour at 8 but they ended up being 45 mins late so the whole day did feel a bit rushed. Our first temple was Angkor Bayon then Angkar Prohm. I really like Angkar Prohm as this one was abandoned for a couple of hundred years so the jungle is reclaiming it with the massive old trees and giant root system that is slowly destroying and knocking the temple down . The guide says they are discussing what to do - whe...

Wednesday Headed for a look around to the Royal Palace first up . As there the Independence Day was only a few days ago they are now taking down all the special scaffolding and stuff that they had up for the day. We found many of the buildings you couldn't go in or take photos of if you could go in especially at the Silver Pagoda. All the floor in this place is silver tiles but it's all covered in carpets and mats so you can't see much. It's all quite grandiose ...

Mon 10 Nov For today we hired the hotel tuk tuk and headed first towards to the Genocide Museum. This place was a former school turned into a prison detention camp where the Khmer Rouge conducted mass torture and murder of tens of thousands of people. Only 7 people actually survived and were rescued from here when the Vietnamese army took control. Many people from here were taken to the Killing Fields to be slaughtered. From the museum we headed to The killin...

Early start yesterday as we had to catch the Blue Cruiser fastboat from Chau Doc to Phnom Penh at 7am. There was only 10 on the boat plus 3 staff so we had plenty of room to spread out. The poor locals are all struggling with the weight of Pat's bag . I did tell one of them it had a body in it and he gave me a strange look but I might have to think again as someone could believe as I think that couple in Bali a couple of months ago did that to the mother of one ...