Monday 8th May We had an early bus ride to Battambang, not impressed, but we did sleep most of the way so the journey was quick! We arrived at the bus stop and jumped on a tuk-tuk to the Lotus Hotel. Apparently lotus sounds like Lux hotel! And after a small trip to said hotel and saying lotus loudly and slowly we headed to, I hoped, the correct hotel! We arrived at the pink (bright pink) Lotus Hotel, where it was very empty. I think we may have been the only gu...

Wednesday 1st May We packed our bags and headed down to the riverside to find some breakfast. We noticed a high presence of police and other 'uniformed' officials that we hadn't noticed before. We wondered what was being planned or maybe it was like this every morning and we hadn't gotten up this early for a while! We sat down by the riverside, which is usually teeming with cars, lorries and tuk-tuk's. Empty…this was odd. Literally after talking about how quie...

Saturday 27th April We left Sihanoukville at 10am the next day back to Phnom Penh; we pretty much slept the whole way so the journey felt quick! When we arrived, a horde of tuk-tuk and moto drivers stand right at the door asking everyone if we need a ride. It annoys me; all I want to do is get out get my bag and then find a ride! There's always one guy that follows you the entire time wearing you down, we had booked a pick up so waited around for 5 minutes. But ...

Sunday 22nd April Today we checked out to go to Monkey Island, we grabbed breakfast/brunch before meeting at Monkey Republic to get the bus to the boat. We had to pick up some more travellers before we got to the boat at the bus station. We arrived there, no one was there. So we went to the boat, Micky (one of the staff from the island who picked us up, who is a girl by the way) got a call saying the bus has arrived. So we turned back around, we were so close to...

Sunday 15th April We got up and had breakfast while waiting for our pick up to the bus station and hopped aboard. We were pleased it had A/C as it was extremely warm (we have found out that April is the hottest month of the year, followed by the rainy season in May, timing again!). The bus took around four hours to arrive at Sihanoukville's bus station. The heavens had opened at this point and torrential rain soaked us. We found ourselves a tuk-tuk to take us to...