Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Good Morning Vietnam! After leaving dirty smelly Phnom Penh bright and really bloody early, we headed for Vietnam. I'm actually used to the honking now, and am getting pretty good at sleeping straight through the noise of all these horny motorists! The border crossing was pretty uneventful, though a bit more thorough than the Thai-Cambodia one - this time we had to take all our stuff off the buses and put our bags through x-ray machine...

Phnom Penh: Education on a Nation So after cruisy lazy Sihanoukville, we jumped in yet another bus, and headed to Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. We'd stopped there earlier during one of our bus routes, but this time we weren't swamped with tuktuk drivers and sales people on arrival, but were dropped off right outside "Fancy Guesthouse" - it did the job, but I don't know if I'd call it fancy... The afternoon was a bit of a sobering experience (yes, s...

Sihanoukville, Cambodia: Beaches, Boats, and Birthday! Ok seriously, I think this might be my fifth attempt... if I had a dollar for every word I've written in this entry that has then disappeared due to sh*t internet connection or power failures, I'd have a lot more spending money! So after we left our homestay, we headed to Sihanoukville, the part of the trip we'd all been waiting for. While it's great being edumacated about how other people live, it's also ...

Cambodia - Siem Reap: Angkor What? Last blog I was just about to meet my new group for Cambodia. Not all of them were there yet at the time, but the breakdown now is: three Aussies (Sarah from my last trip, and my roommate Anna from Melbourne), three Americans (Ruffin from N.Carolina, and Eleni & Bryan from Boston), one Fin (Brigitta) and nine poms - I'm now blind from all the red and white skin (but then I look away from the mirror and it's ok). So we st...

Kompong Cham.. From Siem Reap, we took the public bus to Kompong Cham. Not impressed with the early start... We got off the bus in Phnom Penh and were immediately mobbed at the door by tuk tuk drivers, women selling baguettes, and kids selling books and bracelets. After sitting in airconditioned 'comfort' for the past couple of hours, stepping back into the heat and the shouting and the crazy traffic was a bit of a shock, and everyone looked a bit frazzled while...