Another bus journey to get us back to Phnom Penh yesterday which took up pretty much most of the day. Today has been spent dropping off passports at the Laos embassy and getting them back at the end of the day with shiny new visia ready for our next stop. Catching up on the internet and seeing the National Museum has kept us amused while we waited. Off to Kratie tomorrow, hopefully to see freshwater, Irawaddy dolphins and from tehre to make our way to the Laos b...

We arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, early afternoon yesterday. The boat journey from Chau Doc took about 5 hours and included quite a bit of waiting around at the border crossing, firstly to leave Vietnam and then 100 yards later to be issued with visa's to enter Cambodia. Great scenery of the Mekong River along the way and then the buildings of Phnom Penh beginning to come into focus . The stupa's and bright rooves of the Royal Palace and other official buildin...