Friday 12th June 2009, Siem Reap Having never had to get up at 4:30am before, today was a struggle!! The reason for getting up this early was Angkor Wat and sunrise. We had pre-arranged with our free pick up tuk tuk driver to do the temples with him. So at 5am we jumped in his tuk tuk and headed for the Angkor temples. First stop was the ticket booth. It was $20 for a day at the temples and you had to show your ticket before entering the temples. The ticket also...

Monday 15th June 2009 We arrived in Phnom Penh from Battambang at around 2pm, we were dropped off a different place from last time so we got a tuk tuk to lakeside which we had been told was a basic but good place to stay for location in Phnom Penh. When they said basic they meant basic (Think the guest house owners would have had to pay me to stay there not the other way around!!) after looking a two guest houses we decided this was not the place for us and we al...

Wednesday 10th June 2009 Travel dayToday was a very long day starting at 6am. Once we were dressed and completed packing it was into a tuk tuk and to the bus station. The bus left at 7:15 from Sihanoukville back to Phnom Penh. We reached Phnom Penh at 11:30am hung around for half an hour and then caught another bus to Siem Reap. After a very long and sweaty 6 hours (the air con had broken and every time we tried to open the one window we were very quickly told no...

Saturday 13th June 2009 Today we got the bus from Siam Reap to Battambang, we arrived in Battambang mid afternoon and we were surrounded by men trying to get us to stay in there hotel straight away as soon as we stepped off the bus very intimidating!! We eventually decided to look at one we'd seen in the lonely planet (we were not impressed) so moved on the look at another one which was much nicer The Royal Hotel. We decided on a triple room as Lisa was with us...

Wednesday 3rd June 2009 Phnom Penh We arrived at our drop off point at just after 6pm. The drop off point was at the King's Guest House. After a lot of "Why don't you just take a look?" we eventually decided that we would have a look at the rooms and then decided as it was late we would stay there. It was ok and in a reasonable location. So after checking in we went in search of a cash point. This was not so easy to find. When you draw money out in Cam...