Greetings from Battambang, an old French colonial town in rural Cambodia but firstly lets catch up with our days in Siem Reap.

We spent our second day on bikes again this time exploring the wilder temples of Angkor. Our pick of the lot was Ta Prohm, which has the roots of trees growing in and around the remains, absolutely stunning to look at, its the actual temple where they filmed Tomb Raider (not the one we hsave declared in our last blog)! We covered around 30kms on our bikes has to be our favourite way of seeing Angkor. That evening we explored more of Siem Reap and its night market which was really quiet - not the bustling markets we've become used to.

Next day was a rest day between temple exploring so we had a bit of a luxury day. We had breakfast at a nice cafe, followed by a fish spa, where little fish eat the dead skin off your feet it feels very strange. After an ice cream sundae from Swensons before the private cinema where we watched Breaking Dawn (again!) on a leather sofa in a little cool room for just a few dollars was heaven. That was evening we heard about a tapas deal at The Ivy so we headed there for a lovely dinner, tapas and cocktails for $1.

After a few relaxing temples in the day at night we got a good seat at a street food place and awaited the street parade of puppets made by schools and youth projects. They were massive, they're was a good atmosphere and the kids were very sweet. Obviously we forgot the camera so no pics which is a shame.

Next day up early to get the bus to Battambang. After getting off one bus we were directed to what we thought was our bus but after loading our bags discovered it was headed to Phnom Penh. After a small panic and struggle Eddie had to get under the bus amongst the luggage and mopeds to get his bag back before we ran to the right bus which was waiting. A few hours and many kareoke videos on the bus tv later we arrived in the melay our tuk-tuk drivers in Battambang. Luckily our hotel was across the road so we were escorted over by Olas our soon to be tuk-tuk tour guide. We set up to meet him at 8am next morning to take us around the sights.

Meeting Olas at 8am we start our day wizzing through the countryside. First stop a trip on the bamboo train which was great fun. Its a bamboo mat sat on two pairs of tank wheels powered by a tiny engine flying along the track over rickety old bridges and past rice paddies galore. As its a single track we had to jump off and take our 'vehicle' apart to allow the advancing one through, on one stop our driver went into the paddies and caught a snake for his lunch! Next stop Phnom Banan just 358 stone steps up to a temple and great views of the surrounds. Our last stop took us through countless villages, deafining weddings and children waving before we reached the Killing Caves, which are as they sound. There is a memorial of skulls and bones of the people that were killed and thrown into the cave by the Khmer Rouge.

Now we're heading out for dinner, tommorrow we head to the capital Phnom Penh.