We went from Koh Chang to Trat via tuk tuk then headed off upto a town called Chattenburi? for a night before catchinga shared taxi to the Cambodian border at Pailin. When we got to the border it was just two large porter cabins and you got your stamp out the country. As soon as you stepped into Cambodia it was a complete dive. No tarmac on the roads just dirt tracks. We payed two guys 150 baht each (3 quid each) to take us 20mtrs down the road and point to another porter cabin which was the Cambodian entry border. (You normally pay them and they help you fill out the forms but these guys seen us coming!)

Fortunatly it only took 5mins anyway and we only got charged $5 more than its ment to be (sometimes they charge a lot more) We were the only white people in sight and there was one taxi hanging about so not many options on how to get to Battanbang 3 hours away...he asked us for $50 but I managed to get him down to $20 and we went on our way.

As you can see in the pics there wasnt much along the wau but the roads were awfull! Good fun tho bouncing up and down for 3 hours! We stopped a few times in the middle of nowhere and picked other random people up (Cambodians) and dropped them off on the way (No discount tho!)

We got to Battanbang and its a complete s*** hole and nobody speaks English so it was hard work. We stayed one night and headed off to Siem Reap via boat. It took 7 hours but it was a nice journey you got to see a lot. The pictures that look like the sea are just massive lakes in the middle of the country. Its an odd place and covered in marsh land. Why people live in the middle of nowhere I dont understand.

We visited Ankor Wot and loads of other temples in Ankor, they are huge it took us 2 hours just to have a look around Ankor Wot itself! After about 6 hours looking around they all started to look the same so we called it a day and headed off to thehotel we were stopping at for a dip in the pool!

We stopped at an amazing hotel, it was 4.50 (pounds - the keyboards over here dont have the symbol) a night and was like stopping at a 5* hotel!

We also went to a shooting range where I managed to get my grubby hands on an AK47! There was a wall full of guns to choose from, AK47, Rocket Launcher, Tommy Gun...that Russian one that I dont know the name of and M16's! I thought it was $30 usd per clip so was going to have a few do's but they are at war with Thailand over a bloody mountain up north so the bullets were more expencive (so they said). It was $50 usd per clip so I just had one go. Had a few go's on single shot then he flipped it to automatic and I emptied the clip! So much fun and they are seriously loud! I got my target back and to my suprise I had hit bullseye and managed to get a few head shots in!

The Cambodians are not really that friendly we found (ecpecially compared to Thai people) so we had had enough of them. We booked a bus to Ho Chi Mi City in Vietnam hoping they would be better.

We got on a bus to Phnom Penh (spelt wrong) then got on another heading for the border. The driver was an idiot we nearly crashed about 4/5 times on the way. Then, an hour befor the border we did crash and it wasn't a small crash either.

We were going around 70/80 mph on the wrong side of the road foillowing a mini bus and an open top trailer all overtaking a scooter. There must have been an oncoming car because the trailer tried to move back in, so did the mini bus and because our bus was going faster than both of them we ploughed into the back of the mini bus who was doing about 60 which catapulted it into the back of the open top trailer sending it off course.

The open top trailer (being pulled by a motorbike) went don the embankment at the side of the road, flipped 360 degrees and threw the 8 people that were sat in the back flying into the air. They landed and the trailer landed on top of them then rolled over. The motor bike driver was thrown about 10 foot in the air and he landed on his back on top of the bike. He didnt get up for a bit but when he did he had a mouthfull of blood.

Me and a Scottish lad were the only people to get off the bus to see if anyone was ok and to hand out some water. The 12 seater mini bus had about 18 people in including kids and one of them must have been stood in the back because when we got off the back door where we hit had trapped someone by his leg and people were trying to pull the back door open to free him. The rest were ok.

The people in the open top trailer had some serious injuries tho. There were wrists sticking out, flesh wounds from bottles that they had landed on, some couldnt move and an old lady had a massive lump the size of a tennis ball on top of her eye!

No one died at the scene but there would be some serious internal injuries. The police had no first aid training all they did was stand and stare at them.

We were all ok but stranded in the middle of no where. The driver had done a runner too! Our tour guide turned up an hour later from nowhere saying a bus was on its way. He reckoned the driver had run off incase he got beat up off the locals but I think he was covering for him.

Eventually the next bus arrived and we safly arrived in Ho Chi Mi City.