We left Siem Reap today at 6.45am to go to Kompong Cham. This was a 5 hour journey on a public bus, which wasn't too bad as there was air conditioning and we made a couple of stops but it was truly gross when the woman next to us was sick into her headscarf and then her little girl was sick too - probably due to the bumpyness of the road (Lauren you would have hated it!). We gave them our loo roll to clean up but the smell just made us feel sick too and we were r...

We had a free morning today until 2pm where we just chilled out and tried to organise our route back from Vietnam to Bangkok for when this trip ends. The two routes we are debating are Ho Chi Minh up to Hanoi then plane back to Bangkok or overland back through Laos by bus and train. The latter is looking more likely at the moment as we really want to see Laos while we are here and it's cheaper! At about 2pm we got some lunch from this little cafe run by disadva...

Today we got up at 5am as we all wanted to watch the sun rise over Angkor Wat - a massive temple complex here in Siem Reap. It was really hard to get up so early after yesterday but we didn't want to miss out. However as it was quite cloudy the sun rise was not quite as spectacular as we had hoped, more of a sensational let down at that hour. We had a quick look round - even at 6am the place was packed with tourists - before returning to the guesthouse for bre...

We had to get up at 5:30 am today (not a pretty sight!!!) to have breakfast and leave the hotel by 6:30 am. The first leg of the journey was fine, we were in a nice air conditioned mini-bus for about 4 hrs, which took us to Poipet (the border town for entry into Cambodia). We had to get off the bus here and carry our (massive) bags for about 1 km where we got our passports checked and our visas stamped. Next came the bad part of the day, where the 12 of us in ...

Today we had another lazy day. Not much to report really. We had breakfast, went shopping and sent a parcel home with some souvenirs and stuff we don't need. We could really do with sending back half of my suitcase (Saz) as I didn't realise quite how many tops I had stuffed in oops! We met up with our intrepid group this afternoon who we will be travelling over to Cambodia and Vietnam with for the next 2 weeks, setting off tomorow at 6.30am. There are a total of ...