Siam Reip, Cambodia If it weren't for the Angkor Wat temple complex, Siam Reip would be a sleepy backwater that no-one ever went to. Instead, in the evening, it is a heaving mass of tourists in search of cheap drink, cheap food and cheap trinkets. Incredibly, just as we stepped off our bus at Angkor Wat we bumped into Andy Martin, Fiona's old boy friend. We met up again in the evening and had a catch up session over a few drinks. The temple complex, of which...

Phnom Pen, Cambodia  Crossing into Cambodia the differences with Vietnam are immediately obvious.  Fields are uncultivated, many houses are still made of bamboo, roads are narrow and potholed, there are many beggars and some children running around naked. This is the poorest country that we have visited in our travels so far. I had thought that Phnom Pen would be the place we had to get through to get to the good stuff in Cambodia but it turned out to be bett...