Feb 19 - Another early start, and we wandered out of our hotel at five-thirty-ish. After the photo episode yesterday, we'd joked a little bit about being in a tuk-tuk version of Fatal Attraction, but hadn't thought too hard about it. Our driver grabbed my hand; "Did you sleep well?" He grinned, and showed no signs of letting go. "Did you dream about me last night? I dreamed about you." No exaggeration, that's exactly what he said... I didn't ...

Feb 17 - This blog's going to try & roll a couple of days into one. It's not that we haven't been busy, but if you distill down our activities, it's basically been "Looking At Rocks", which is difficult to write about, and probably even harder to read! We're slightly templed-out - can you tell? Actually, that's a bit unfair, because the temples of Angkor are amazing, but you can overload on them. On Saturday morning, I got up early to see the sunri...

Feb 15 - Today we'd planned to go to Siem Reap, which is the launch point for the temples of Angkor. Battambang is not really such a great place to see, although the people there are really friendly. The only reason we'd routed this way was that the boat trip from here to Siem Reap, down the Sangker River, was meant to be one of the most beautiful in the country ... so we were slightly concerned that our moto drivers had told us the river was too low for the boat...

Feb 14 - Leaving Phnom Penh today, and I think we could probably have done with another day at least - it's an amazing city and felt very familiar to us, but maybe that's because of similarities to Africa. It's strange, but a lot of travellers in Vietnam told us to avoid it, and one guy described it as "like a slum of Saigon". We thought the opposite - and I guess it just goes to show how differently people can view the same place. We'd booked a bus to...

The recent history of Cambodia is pretty torrid. King Sihanouk was deposed in 1970, while on a trip to Paris, his cousin Sisowath and army general Lon Nol took over with US approval, beacuse of their perceived strong stance against Vietnamese communist insurgents. As a result, the Vietnamese troops allied with the communist factions in the countryside. King Sihanouk was in exile in Beijing, having been tried and senenced to death in absentia, and formed an allian...