I arrived back into Phnom Penh mid afternoon after a rather dodgy bus journey. I was on edge the entire time as the driver seemed to be taking some serious risks, I've never experienced driving so bad at 60kph. We had so many near misses with lorries, mopeds and other slow moving vehicles, which in Cambodia is most of them, but we were so close on two occasions to taking out 2 cows that decided to cross the road as we were passing. He also had a noticeable probl...

The journey to Sihanoukville from the homestay was through more rural Cambodia which was very scenic, although it was the first time that i had noticed the skull and crossbone signs attached to trees signalling landmines. Its so sad that they obviously cannot afford to clear areas of the country from them. Arrived in sihanoukville after the home stay and the walk feeling rather shattered. Most of the group were straight down to the beach to check it out but I ha...

We left Phnom Penh to start our journey to our home stay in Chambok which was approximately 3 hours drive. We do return to Phnom Penh after a couple of days in Sihanoukville. The place we're staying at is right in the back end of nowhere in the countryside of Cambodia. The village was badly affected by landmines during the war but after the government moved the entire village away whilst they de-mined it before moving them back again. The people at the village we...

Part-1 Arrived early morning into Phnom Penh by public bus, the journey was ok as it was the same bus that we caught from siem reap to kompong Cham. The bus made one stop at a service station selling local delicacies such as fried tarantula, whole quails plus some kind of beetle thing that looked like a cockroach. Didn't get to try the fried tarantula as we were put off by the number of flies that were landing on them, hopefully will get another chance whilst I'...

Had a quite a poor sleep last night, I did notice that the bed sheets were irritating me. I had slept in the same bed for two nights and the sheets were fresh each day so I'm not sure why it started on the last night in siem reap. I also was having weird dreams which didn't help, i spoke to the pharmacist on my tour and he reckons that it may be the anti malarials. Caught the public bus to kampung Cham which was a 6 hour bus ride (in luxury) with stops inbetwee...