So here we are in siem reap close to Angkor wat, the mean reason we came to Cambodia and maybe the most recognisable sight of south Asia. Not a great start to our trip as our hotel forgot to pick us up from the port - then finding our bed was broken and we had no water in the room!! I guess things come in three's! Once we got over this hiccup we decided to rent bikes to visit the hundreds of temples. This was great if a little exhausting in the sun, the place i...

Having loved sleepy kampot we got yet another bus to a small town / city called Battambang - a place famous for a mystical god stirring some rice with a mucky stick which turned the rice black and in turn his skin black also - bit of a weak reason to visit the place; the main draw is in fact a rickety old railway which has bamboo carts propelled by motorbike engines - such good fun and just like Alton towers!! From here we caught a scenic river boat to siem reap ...

So having visited a number of large asian cities we decided to get away from the smells, noise and fellow backpackers by getting a boneshaker of a bus to the small crumbling french colonial town of Kampot on the south coast of Cambodia. The heat and way of like in this part of the world makes the town feel very sleepy and laid back, which is great to experience and we have quickly taken to drinking happy hour cocktails whilst watching the sun go down. There a qui...

Having been really impressed with Vietnam, we crossed the land border into Cambodia, expecting more of the same nature, beauty, hospitality and people. Our first taste of cambodia came as we crossed the border at a road side cafe (this place makes the dodgey caravan cafes at the side of motorways look like michelin star restaurants) after two plates of rice, liver and pork bones we set off for Phnom Penh, which was made famous in the mid-1970's due to the Khmer R...