The border crossing into Cambodia was a bit chaotic and you need to be prepared for quite a change from Thailand. I was meant to get a connecting bus to take me from the border crossing to Siem Reap, but as is usual in Asia they wait and wait until the have a capacity bus. People were getting a tad irrate at the bus company, and in the end I ended up getting a lift from a couple of Aussie lads (Ben and Jake) who opted to hire a taxi, along with Robbie another lad from the UK travelling for a year.

I had been told to expect a culture shock on the poverty in Cambodia, but I would say that central Siem Reap seems quite isolated from this. Its quite a well to do area, with quite a booming little tourism industry due to Angkor Wat.

And that is what Siem Reap is all about Angkor Wat. The four of us ended up hiring two tuks tuks and a guide that took us to all the main wats and Sunset at Angkor Wat for the princely price of about 9 bucks each'for a day and half! At this stage of my trip, as with many others, I had been suffering from I'msickoftempleitis, but Angkor is a bit special. It's more preserved than a lot of the older temples I've seen so far, and also doesn't have the certain gaudiness of some of the buddhist temples in Thailand.

We got up at 4.30am to catch the sunrise, and by 2pm we were all exhausted. You would have to be seriously into temples to buy the 3 day pass, and demented to buy the 7 day pass. One day is plenty. And once you've done it and sampled the bars in the imaginitively titled Bar street, you really can move on. So it's off to Phnom Penh next for my month stint of volunteering.