Sua s'dei! Greetings from Cambodia!

Our last little blog we had arrived back in Bangkok from Koh Samui. We spent the next day hard on the tourist trail visting the Grand Palace and surrounds, Wat Pho, the oldest and largest temple in Bangkok and Wat Arun all beautiful temples and monuments got some good photos so check 'em out! The highlights Buddha wise, of which there were many, were the Emerald Buddha (actually made of jade) and the giant reclining Buddha, which is about 50 metres long and 15m high and shows him entering Nirvana. In the afternoon we caught a boat down the river to Silom, where Fay was interviewed by some school kids filming their English skills, they're English just slightly more advanced than our Thai. We wondered through Silom and caught the sky train to Siam for some very trendy mall shopping and our monthly cinema trip, watched The Woman in Black - absolutely terrifying!

Worn out from all the temple walking next day we spent the day chilling around Rambuttri and Khao San Road and prepared for the alleged tricky border crossing to Cambodia.

Hitting the road early at 6am and then taxi, train, bus, walk, shuttle bus and finally minibus 10 hours later we arrived in Siem Reap. The border was pretty straight forward we made some friends saving them from the Visa scammers, in return the scammers sent us in the wrong direction to stop us warning anyone else. The minibus from Poipet to Siem Reap was very cramped to say the least but hey it was 10 dollars. By some stroke of luck the unofficial bus stop (the drivers friends guest house) was 30 seconds walk from ours but that didn't stop the tuk-tuk drivers pointing the way and then trying to take us there for a dollar.

First impressions of Siem Reap are good, we had dinner and drinks on Pub Street (50 cents a beer) and a delicious Khmer tasting menu with Amok which is curry cooked in banana leaf. Crossing the road here has really upped a notch from Bangkok, the mopeds come out of nowhere and they are everywhere. Planning on hitting the temples of Angkor tomorrow, maybe by bike but it is 8km away and in this heat that's a recipe for tears and tantrums!