Mar 01 - Considering that we went to bed at eight 'o'clock the night before, we woke up pretty late - about seven-thirty. The Pnong family were already up, so we rolled up our hammocks and went outside to have a stretch. I half-heartedly looked around for some sort of bathroom, but there wasn't anything of the sort. The ground outside the south side of the house was covered with poo - much of it strangely human-looking, which was quite a shock to see. These peopl...

Mar 03 - So Friday was the day we set off on our trek through the jungles of Mondulkiri. We woke up for a quick breakfast at Phnom Meas, and met up with Rainer, Zelia and Baptiste. The hotel manager, Mr Tree, was a little late, so we had to play a quick game of charades to get our orders in, as no-one else at the guest house speaks much English. Tree rocked up at about eightish; we packed our trekking gear into the tuk-tuk and said goodbye to Rainer, who was stay...

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 ...

Feb 25 - We could barely move this morning. Sitting on your butt in a 4-wheel drive might not sound like hard work, but the all-day driving marathon to Preah Kahn had given us a bit of spinal compression! Today, we had it easy, though, as it was only an hour's drive to Sambor Prei Kuk - our next set of temples (and last, horray!). To be honest, I think we overdid the temple-spotting a bit, and we were starting to feel a bit jaded. We planned to meet Roehn for br...