Waking at 4 am really is not the best time to start the day. But then being piled into a bus, sitting shoulder to shoulder and having to endure full blast Cambodian Karaoke versions of Beyonce songs makes getting that extra bit of shut eye even more difficult. Add to this the fact that every few seconds the bus driver pushes down the horn. You have to let go of your Western senses that a head on crash is about to happen and trust that the busdriver is just merel...

So after attempting to save the best for last it was now time to check out the temple of all South East Asian Temples; Angkor Wat. At almost 1 square kilometres, it sure is spectacular in it's grandeir and you can see why it's such a proud emblem of Cambodia. However, it's also a tourist stampede. The challenge becomes trying to take that picture of a lonely ancient temple between one drove of people and the next. Ta Prohm is perhaps even more spectacular. Unlik...

It was a day of patching up. First to a proper hospital to see there was no infection from the graze to the face. The catch cry of that visit was "No IV!!" Thoughts of the high hep C and HIV rates in Cambodia were on the mind. Then it was off to the dentist which was suprisingly clean. After cleaning up the chips, it was pretty tempting to get some real work done on the teeth considering it was only 5 dollars a consultation. But once again, the high rates of hep...

Through our guest house (Siem Reap Rooms - we highly recommend it) we'd organised to meet with a family in a nearby village to check out how laundry was done in Cambodia and also to demonstrate how the Scrubba wash bag works. It would be interesting to get a local's opinion. Our TukTuk driver, Perry, drove us about 50 minutes from Siem Reap to the village where his sister lives. Perry also spoke a good amount of English which helped us explain why we were ther...

After hiring a couple of mountain bikes, we'd decided to save the most famous temple, Angkor Wat, for last. As such, we were off to ride the grand circuit of the temples in Angkor. The circuit is approximately 26 kms but another few extra by taking a "shortcut" down a side road. The "shortcut" was a great way of seeing some of the local villages and our voices almost became hoarse from all the "hellos" responding to the local kids. However, our shortcut managed ...