Feb 28 - We woke up early at Phnom Meas. Everyone here seemed to get up with the dawn, and there was all sorts of activity going on as we crawled out of bed. We were still feeling a little fragile from the truck journey, and weren't up to anything too energetic today. At breakfast, there were the five of us, who'd got in the previous day (Cheryl, myself, Zilia, Baptiste and Rainer) and three girls from Gloucester. Tree seemed to be the main English-speaker at the...

Feb 27 - I got up early to try and use the internet. The Mekong hotel is cavernous - the hotel corridors are ten meters wide, and about the length of a football pitch. It gives it a really spacious feel - the architect obviously wasn't worried about economy of space. The receptionist gave me some bad directions to the internet cafe, and I wandered off into the town. Walking through the Kompong Cham market was an eye-opener. There seemed to be a stall for every ...