We're not sure if this is really worth blogging, as we only stayed in Phnom Penh one night. Nevertheless, and more to ensure our trail map is accurate, we hope you are briefly entertained. As we mentioned in our last blog, the reason for the detour was to visit one of the other volunteers, Bar, who is temporarily bedridden within close proximity to one of the better Cambodian hospitals. While riding back from the local buddhist temple during the Khmer New Year, ...

It's already been one month since we entered Cambodia, and feels like much less.. although we can't argue with the moon. And so it's time for us to go for a 'visa run' into Thailand to renew our Cambodian visas. Before we cross the border, we plan to head in the opposite direction up to Phnom Penh for the night. The reason for the detour is that one of our fellow volunteers, Bar, is celebrating her birthday in the capital city. We would have celebrated in the vi...

The former capital of Cambodia, Sihanoukville, is best known for it's white sands and the thousand or so restaurants and bars lining the beachfront. As a short getaway from the village, it was a bit strange to be back amongst the party-time backpackers, but nice to eat some western food and enjoy the salt water again. We arrived and took a moto taxi straight to Otres Beach, one of the quieter beaches a few kilometres out of the city. We spent the afternoon relax...

After nine days in this wonderful heart warming and sometimes heart breaking village we are about to head away for the weekend, and thought it was about time we try to explain a little bit about what we are actually doing here. The project is based on community agricultural development. The focus village was established in 2004 and currently supports about 200 Khmer families. There are several organisation sponsored employees and volunteers who help to manage th...

We awoke in Can Tho a few days ago with a simple mission - get as far into Cambodia as possible. We started with an early morning bus to the port town of Rach Gia, where we stretched our legs with a stroll along the river and enjoyed our last Vietnamese filtered coffee :( Our next bus hurled us towards a nice little beachy town called Ha Tien, only a kilometre from the border crossing. Sadly we didn't have time to see much of Ha Tien, so hired a couple of moto ...