We caught the bus to Phnom Penh from Saigon early in morning, the journey was fine and took about six hours in total (a relatively small journey now for us!) When we arrived we had the usual hustle and bustle of tuk-tuk drivers trying to get our custom. We decided to share one with a couple of lads from London that we'd met on the Journey, to spread the cost. They were only on holiday, so to them budgeting wasn't a priority and they stopped in the first place the...

Luckily, prior to our departure from Bangkok to Siem Reap we decided to do some research about the journey, as we were considering taking the budget option of the third class train. As we were researching the journey, we stumbled across many reports and travel blogs of scams that took place whilst making this trip, no fewer than five scams set up to trick travellers into overpriced travel, overpriced entry visas (more than double the $20 they were supposed to be!...