Kratie made for a good stop off point between Ban Lung and Phnom Penh, it is a small town that sits beside the Mekong river. We arrived at midday and found a guesthouse, we then ventured out to have a look round. We walked through the market which was the same as all the others we have visited selling the same knock offs and then found somewhere to relax and have a drink. We had heard the sunsets here were meant to be amazing, unfortunately it was cloudy on our...

After an eventful 12 hour bus journey we arrived in Ban Lung very tired. The buses work a bit differently here, they sell more tickets then they have seats for so people were balancing pieces of wood between two aisle seats to create a seat, and they even squeezed two moto's (scooter to me and you) in the luggage compartment under the bus. This then created a problem as people couldn't get there back packs on, so these went in the aisle also. As you can imagine t...

We weren't too sure how long the boat was going to take, we had been told all sorts of times from 6 to 10 hours. We were expecting a larger boat than what we had. It was thin and had two bench seats down the side but they still managed to squeeze about 50 people on, some decided to sit on the roof. It was a very interesting boat trip, we passed through lots of little villages which literally floated on the river, small boats would pull up next to ours as we were ...

From Phnom Penh we took a 6 hour bus to Battambang. Once the bus had stopped we went to grab our bags. The driver opened up the baggage compartment and we noticed it was pretty wet. He pulled out some large containers followed by one women's suitcase which was drenched. She tried to ask what it was, the first answer was oil and then water. We then got our bags which were also pretty wet. As we walked to the hotel the liquid was running down Pete's arm and by the ...

So not wanting to risk being sea sick (as our journey to the island was very rocky) we took some travel sickness tablets to be on the safe side. The weather was pretty grey and the sea looked choppy. We were one of the first ones on the boat so we sat up stairs on some satellite style wicker chairs. They didn't have covers on so they were a little uncomfortable, Pete decided to take the life jackets from the side of the boat and use these as cushions, worked a tr...