After our last night in Sihanoukville we were up early to board our coach to Siem Reap. There isnt a main road direct from Sihanoukville to Siem Reap so we had to go via Phnom Penh.. We thought our luck was in on boarding, we'd been sold the first two seats at the front of the coach with plenty of leg room to stretch out. We were sat right near the tv at the front of the coach which was showing bizarre Cambodian pop videos with funny love stories involving drunk...

On leaving Bangkok on the 11th, we took an aircon minibus for 250 baht (around a fiver) to Kanchanaburi which was about a 2 hour drive. It seemed a lot longer as the driver decided to play Boney M's greatest hits all the way there, torture... It dropped us straight at a quiet little guesthouse right by the river Kwai so we just booked in there for two nights to save looking around, got a nice bungalow with a fan and bathroom for about 3 quid a night each. We cou...

After a gruelling 11.5 hour flight with next to no sleep we arrived in Bangkok. Getting through customs was a doddle and i was relieved to have passed through and to the taxi rank with such ease. We then jumped in what was probably the shabbiest of taxis at the taxi rank and told the driver where to head to, all the way into the centre of Bangkok it sounded like the exhaust or part of the suspension was going to fall off the car but we got to our hotel quite eas...