One final night in Phnom Penh, we bought our bus tickets to Ho Chi Minh city (HCMC) Vietnam and sent a few postcards we were meant to have sent from Bangkok. Then came the dreaded food posioning...the night before a 6:45am bus journey all the way to Vietnam and from eating local Cambodian curry which surely they should know how to cook properly!! The next morning I made it onto the bus with my stomach feeling like it was hosting a doubles Squash match inside! By ...

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...

After a top new years on the beach of Koh Samui surrounded by endless fireworks it was time to leave Thailand. We had decided to get into Cambodia it would be necessary to hit Bangkok for a few days first and get a bus from there, we never thought actually getting to Bangkok would be so stressful! Due to it now being the 3rd of January every man and his chicken and backpacker was leaving Ko Samui to get back to work, this meant no seats available on any buses fro...