I'm sitting in the little town of Stung Treng (alone and unloved for the first time) and I enjoyed writing my 'Best Of' for Vietnam so here's a second installment for Cambodia. Best Meal: Hamburger and Chips - Sihanoukville. First solid meal after the spews, and the burger was spiced perfectly. Honorable Mention: Mocha Eclair from Blue Pumpkin Bakery in Siem Reap Biggest Character: Tough choice, probably the kid at the rapids who posed for about half ...

You know when people go away to famous tourist destinations and come back going, 'It was OK, but it wasn't that good'. I have not had that experience yet at all! All the places that I've visited so far that are famous as tourist destinations have in my opinion been living up to their reputation.First it was Ha Long Bay and Sapa in Vietnam, now I can add the Temples of Angkor to my list of awesome things I've seen.For those who don't know, ...

This is my last night in Phnom Penh before I head to the jewel of Cambodia, Angkor Wat and surrounds and I have to say, I like the place. OK some downsides, open sewers that can't handle the inflows from a normal daily flood that turn the street into a river of black, insanely competetive moto and tuk tuk drivers that have to be roped off like animals whenever a tour bus pulls in. But apart from that I think its a slightly more advanced and dare I say, cosmopolit...

Everyone who delighted in telling me how sick I'd get in South East Asia can feel smug and vindicated now, as after 4 weeks here (or 5 days in Cambodia depending on how you look at it) I got my first case of food poisoning. Í've been fairly free and easy with what I've been ordering, never giving it much thought and finishing off the plate or bowl, but I've now got that out of my system (in more ways than one) and will be adding a few more standard Western dis...

So now I'm in Sihanoukville, beach capital of Cambodia and it hasn't stopeed raining for 48 hours. If I'd started my trip a week earlier it would have been all sunshine and roses but according to the locals, it'll be like this for a couple of months! Them's the breaks. Apart from that, so far Cambodia has been a revelation. Apart from obsessive moto and taxi drivers thers' been little in the way of 'hey you, buy something'. (I'm sure you're all sick of me c...