Well for some reason our stomachs were not very settled this morning, but we geared up ready to leave for Thailand. We thought ourselves lucky for organising a nice, comfortable, air-conditioned van ride for the 25km journey to the border ..... Alas, in true Cambodian style, what should show up at the guest house but a very run-down clapped out white van with very minimal suspension. We hit every pothole possible on the dusty drive to the border, red dirt ...

Well it is now our last day in Siem Reap, we arrived here 3 days ago from Phnom Penh, an arduos 4 hour bus ride. We have visited the famous Angkor Wat temples and numerous other ones too. We hired a tuk-tuk and driver for 2 days for the mere sum of about $5. Cheap as chips! We found out the hard way that sometimes the Lonely Planet does actually provide you with sound advice ... So when it said 'avoid visiting Angkor Wat at noon, in the heat of th...

Scary scary day, not from any sort of scary adventure, but because we visited the killing fields of Choeng Uk. During the reign of Pol Pot, a mass of people were murdered here. Anyone who had any sort of education was killed. Pol Pot rounded up armies of small teenage boys to kill their families. You can still walk around the grave sites and find bones from the murders. It was a very scary and sad place and I am so pleased that his reign is over and th...

After leaving the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh behind us, we decide to do a two-day raft/boat/tuk-tuk tour to the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. This gets off to a great start as we drive to the border town and get into a row boat. The row boats, of course, are steered by women, they seem to do all the hard work in this culture. We paddle up the river and through floating villages. It is an experience to witness fish bones being dried out in the sun...