It was a fairly uneventful journey for me as I had my head in my book but we did stop for lunch at Kompong Thom. We rushed to eat some delicious rice and vegetables with only 30 minutes' break. We also went in a shop which had a hammock tied up at the back and a baby asleep in it - so cute! We soon arrived in Siem Reap and as promised our tuk-tuk driver was waiting with the sign 'Mr Neil and Mrs Kirsty' - funny! We sped the 10 minutes into town to look at some h...

[£1 = 6,200 Cambodian Riel or US$1.62] The landscape outside the window changed subtly after the border crossing. No more conical hats, no more hills. Sun-dried grasslands with wandering and somewhat emaciated cattle grazing and houses all built on stilts. It still looked hot though (luckily our air-conditioning was doing the business!) Rocketing through Cambodia (slowing down for a short ferry crossing at Neak Luong) we reached the capital an hour ahead of...