15 Nov - 17 Nov: Over 3 days we visited most of the major temples that our visitor pass covered. For us, the main highlight was the second day when we hired our own bicycles and set off to explore under our own steam. Stopping off wherever we thought looked interesting, we got much hotter than we had done in a tuk-tuk, but we seemed to have more interaction with the locals. Cambodia is more tiring than Laos and up to now had suffered in our eyes by direct compari...

We had 2 long bus journeys as we travelled up from the beach to PP, and from there onto Siem Reap. This gave us an opportunity to chronicle the things which can be carried on the back of a motorbike in Cambodia (in addition to the driver): 1) nothing (unlikely) 2) 1 passenger 3) 2 passengers 4) 3 passengers 5) 1 passenger and 1 bag of rice 6) 1 passenger and a ladder 7) a mattress (driver sits on this) 8) 1 passenger with bowl of fruit on their heads 9) 1 passeng...