Kratie was a quick stopover to help break up the bus journeys, but also Kratie is a small town situated along the Mekong river, and home to the rare Irrawaddy Dolphins. We arrived about midday, found a hostel for the night (You Hong II), and bargained with a Tuk tuk driver to take us the 15Km North to Kampie. The journey was lovely, of course very bumpy, but we got to see a lot of the countryside, the locals living their everyday lives, and lots of children runni...

An hour into our journey to Banlung from Phnom Penh, our bus got pulled over the by the police. Apparently the bus had knocked someone off their moped! After a lot of discussions and certainly some bribes with the local law enforcers, we were all told to get off the bus and stand on the side of the road...where we waited for over an hour! Luckily it was a cloudy morning, but with Amelia still poorly it was not ideal! We got ushered onto a replacement bus, and off...

I woke up with the left side of my face swollen, looking like a lopsided chipmunk or something! I think it was an allergic reaction to the Jack fruit we had tried the day before. We boarded a bus and eight hours later we had arrived at Phnom Penh. We stayed at Velkommen Guesthouse - great location, right next to the river front. We decided to find our bearings, and found a noodle restaurant for lunch, both eating a red chicken curry noodle soup (delicious!). The ...

6:30am Monday 8th December, we were supposed to be up and ready to catch our bus to Battambang, instead we were... asleep! Our alarm had either not gone off, or we'd slept through it. Either way, as transport is rarely on time in Cambodia, we awoke, ran straight for the bus, and hit the road at roughly 6:45am.Half way through our journey we stopped by some roadside food stalls, for a quick bite to eat. We tried some 'krolan', which is sticky coconut r...

Just a brief 40 minute flight from Bangkok over to Siem Reap in Cambodia. Jumped in a taxi to our hostel, Okay1villa. Our room was, let's just say, basic...but clean which is the main thing. There is a 'no shoes' policy in this hostel, so the entrance is like a shoe shop! Since it was late afternoon we went to the top floor to enjoy the swimming pool, roof top bar and restaurant for the evening, whilst trying to switch from our Thai hello's and th...