We'd decided to do some sightseeing on our short stay in BKK, so had booked to be picked up at 0630 to go and see the floating market about 100km out of town. By 0800 we'd progresed as far as picking up the rest of the punters on our bus. When we got to the market it was a bit of a dissapointment - on the way our 'guide' (not a great source of illumination) had told us that the locals didn't use it any more and that it was basically for touris...

We caught a taxi to the border town of Poipet, and before long we were thundering along a Thai road (dual carrigaeway!) towards the bus terminal. After stocking up on fruit, iced coffee and Leo beer our bus sped towards Bangkok (BKK). The entertainemnt had already stepped up a gear compared to Cambodia - karaoke was banished in favour of futuristic kung fu battles featuring wizards and warriors. The body count was quite impresive. At the northern bus terminal, ta...

We got the scenic boat from Siem Reap to Battanbang, getting up at 515 and finding that our journey took 7 hours and not 5 as we had been told. The city is duller than we had thought. There are few restaurants. Dave ended up with an 'úpset stomach' again for several hours. Frankly the highlight has been the James Bond season on TV in our room (Diamonds are Forever and Live and Let Die today - the latter being Dave's joint favourite Bond (it is...

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...