On the bus journey from Phnom Penh we stopped over for some food. The local delicacy, however, was not quite for us. All around me (Sophie stayed on the bus!) women were carrying around tarantulas ready for frying. A massive box live tarantulas was sat just outside the bus. To complement the tarantulas there were fried grasshopers, cockraoches and other such bugs. We opted for pineapple.

When we got to Siem Reap we found a nice hotel (or so we thought) just outside the centre of town. Since it was already too late to visit the Angkor Temples - you need all day - we went to town and bought some clothes and food and went back to the room. The local, and only, club in town was situated just below our room. Until 11pm it didn't seem too much of a problem, but as the night kicked in the RnB bass literally shook the room, needless to say we didn't get much sleep. The next day we moved hotels first thing and then found ourselves a tuk tuk to take us round the temples. Just as we were about to set off an eccentric Polish come English girl jumped in our tuk tuk and asked if she could go round with us.

We arrived first at the main temple - Angkor Wat. This is the biggest of the temples, errected in the 11th century, and has a large moat surrounding it. Like nearly all the temples at Angkor, it was built on the orders of a Hindu prince, but had been modified since by Buddhists who built other temples in the area from the 14th century onward. Some of the walls of Angkor Wat had suffered damage during the Kmer Rouge reign - they banned all forms of religion or decoration from people's lives, saying their only allegiance should be to the Kmer Rhouge and Pol Pot (the leader). After Angkor Wat we visited the second biggest of the temples (I can't remember the name). The temple was constructed in the 13th century by a Hindu king. As well as numerous images of Cobra snakes the king had 52 images of his face built on large pillars facing out at all directions. Unfortunately our pictures don't quite capture this as our camera battery ran out at this point. We later bought a throw away camera. The final temple of note that we visited - they are all amazing but become pretty much a blur after Angkor Wat - was Angkor Thom (sometimes called the Tomb Raider temple), where huge fig trees have grown over the side of the walls. Towards the end of the day we made our way up to a temple on top of a large hill for views over the valley. At the top we caught a glimpse of the sunset just before a large cloud came and ruined the view. On the way down, as night set in, we could hear loud screams from the forest. When we asked our driver what they were he told us it was the cicadas, large cricket like insects.

The following day we got up early and went for a cookery lesson in local Khmer food. The local food in Cambodia was a little like Thailand, with coconut milk a regular ingredient. We were taken round the local food market first and shown how to pick out the key ingredients for our food. When we got back to the restaurant I began my preperation of fresh spring rolls, khmer curry (chicken and coconut) and green bean dessert, whilst Sophie was cooking fried spring rolls, Khmer Amok (fish and rice) and banana dessert. We attempted to finish the food we had just cooked but as it was early in the morning barely got past a few spring roles. We set off in a tuk tuk to the 'floating village' and dropped our food off on the way to a man sitting in the street with no legs (apparently he had 5 children and was most greatful).

The floating village was a band of Cambodians, Vietnames and Muslims (Malaysian) who spent their entire lives on boats which floated up and down the Mekong river. We drove through the hundreds of boats on our own boat with a local guide (aged 14!). As well as house boats there were hospital boats, police boats, school boats, church/mosque boats and best of all a basketball court boat. Several sellers hijacked our boat momentarily but the most interesting was a small boy carrying a 2 metre long python. He wanted a dollar for a photograph.

That night we sampled some a the local night life and went to bed fairly early ready to get back to Phnom Penh. We had a flight booked for Krabi (Thailand) in just a few days time.