We had a nice cheap breakfast at a cafe in the centre of Kampot and set out on the motorbike to explore! First stop was the search for a pepper plantation, we'd read on travel wiki that a spot called the vine retreat had their own plantation and would show people round. It was about 5km off the main road and a really secluded place, stunning though. A nice lady showed us round the plantations and explained how they get the different colours of pepper (White, R...

The Tuk Tuk from Kep to Kampot was a fairly memorable trip, the road is pretty rough and somehow the Tuk Tuk managed to have less then no suspension! With sore backs and sore ears (from the squeaky ride) we eventually rumbled into Kampot and had the Tuk Tuk drop us at a hotel recommended to us by Giles who we met in Kep (very nice btw). Bags dropped we washed the collective salt off our bodies from two days on Rabbit Island without fresh water. We were so grate...

Escape from Phnom Penh was not at straightforward as first hoped! We were waiting in reception for our pickup when one of the ladies said that they sometimes forget to pick people up! They kindly rang the number we had been given and announced that a van was on its way. A quick wizz around the streets of Phnom Penh and we were dropped at a bus station to be ushered onto another bus. Four hours, a screaming baby and loud Cambodian karaoke later and we arrived in...

We left Saigon bleary eyed after a short nights sleep, booked on the sinh cafe bus at 6.30 meant a very early start after being late to bed following the bag snatching the night before. The bus journey was good though, we slept for the first couple of hours and arrived at the Cambodian border at around 10PM. The guide on the bus had leveraged our border fees out of us already so that was all sorted and we were in Cambodia! Another couple of hours on the bus u...