First of all huge apologies for being thoroughly lazy and not updating you all for ages!

The journey from 4,000 islands in Laos to Siem Reip was a pain that took us on 6 different buses and an overnight stay in Kom Pong Cham but the ray of sunshine was that we met a great guy Chris who travelled with us throughout Cambodia and who turned out to be Roger's boozing buddy and protege, and a very good one at that!

As a town Siem Riep is much like any other, loads of hotels and a main road dedicated to restaurants and bars which is highly touristed and also highly populated by beggars, which come in the form of amputees, mother's with children and lone kids roaming the streets. It did become very apparent to me very quickly that Cambodia will not be the hassle free experince we had in Laos.

A remarkable observalence whilst on the bus to Siem Reip was how much the town and villages resemble those in India, dirt roads, tarpulin rooves, an abundance of litter, roaming livestock etc. When i put all the above together i did cross my fingers and hope that this wouldn't be a mini India because i just don't think i handle it so soon!?!?

Siem Reip proved to be fine, you had to learn to ignore and not look in the general direction of the street sellers because you'd never be left alone.

We didn't get up to much other then visit Angkor Wat and the surrounding temples. It took a whole day from 8am-6pm, during this time we saw so many temples i can truely say on behalf of us all that we really don't want to see another temple for some considerable time, so sorry if the pictures bore you but i seriuosly don't plan on going back to take more!! God knows how anyone could get a 3 day pass, it's beyond me!

The most amazing temple in my opinion was Ta Prom where the trees have grown over the ruins (and also where tomb raider was filmed) i found it far more interesting and impressive then Angkor Wat itself.

I don't know maybe i built it up too much in my head but it had little effect on me (I think the guys agree) the huge steep stairs to the towers were now closed, this was something that Steve and I had really look forward to doing so we were obviously disappointed, although a dodgy security guard did say he would let us up them for $10 each. What a cheeky buggar we'd paid $20 each for the whole day ticket. How he expected to let us up there without anyone seeing i'm not sure, highly dodgy thing to do and Steve, in his matter of fact way told him what he thought.

So needless to say we are pleased we saw Angkor Wat and the surrounding temples but are no hurry to go back there.