Sihanoukville is Cambodia's future hope for gaining some of the beach destination tourism away from Thailand.  A pretty little spot with far too many motorbike drivers wanting to take us somewhere - anywhere! The air reverberates with "want moto" "where you going" the minute you step out of the guesthouse or leave the beach or anywhere, any hour. We, of course, stubbornly (and for our health's sake) walk EVERYWHERE!We took a 4 hour bus ride from Phnom P...

A bus trip took us down to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.At a comfort stop along the way, we saw snacks of spiders, crickets and other indistinguishable creatures deep fried for sale and local bus passengers were buying them. Avan saw an item he thought might be a crumbed sausage and bought it. Turned out to be a huge and very hot chilli under the crumbs!An arrival we elbowed our way through the annoying touts and with some help from passerby Westerner...

 Our ticket euphemistically said it was a "speed boat". Well it was actually a very old tub of a boat probably meant to take some 8 people, that about 22 of us were crammed into, but it was a great experience. An excruciatingly early 5.30am pickup took us to the wharf. For 6 hours we chugged slowly through the amazing scenic waterways of Tonle Sap. Village life is evident at every turn with many of the houses actually floating pontoons. Cambodians fishing and ...

Cambodia had long been on our list of places we wanted to see because of the amazing temples of Angkor. Cambodia is a nation that is struggling to rebuild itself after 3 decades of civil war and years of terror and trauma, including the four year reign of genocide terror that Pol Pot inflicted on the nation. Tourism is about to take off for Cambodia in a big way as its developed neighbours cannot compete with the treasure Cambodia has in Angkor.Our trip to Siem ...