Cambodia is a beautiful country and a prime example of this is 5hours south in Sihanoukville, a town with the most beautiful beaches that could easily pull crowds away from Thailand's counterparts. Accomodation is so cheap here, its $7US for a double room in a hotel with bathroom and TV, and most rent motorbikes for about $5 so the next day we took off exploring the surrounding areas, spotting monkeys playing on the roads! For me the experience came trying to lea...

It was time to leave the Las Vegas of Cambodia for the capital of Phnom Penh. The six hour bus ride took us through the beautiful countryside surrounded by wooden house on stilts with fields full of Ox's and people busy at work. Once we had arrived we headed to the popular backpacker haunt on the lakeside, made up of old wooden guesthouses sat on the lake it was a sight not to forget! You have a choice of dirty or dirtier guesthouses, the '24hour' receptions act ...

The border crossing from Thailand into Cambodia at Poipet is known as the 'bone breaker'.... thoughts of some monster or dragon snapping poor backpackers in half were quickly forgotten as we learnt it was about the terrible 5hours drive to Siem Reap from the border. The road is made up of dirt, pot holes, bigger pot holes and no bridges! Rumour has it a un-named airline was paying a un-named political party to slow the development of this major road...i.e not tar...