S-21 - Death Camp Similarly as with the temples near Siem Reap we had a tuk tuk take us to the locations and the driver would wait on us until we were ready to move on. In Siem Reap we had bought a book that was highly recommended to read called, 'First they killed my Father'. This book helped give us a fairly detailed insight into the Khmer Rouge take over of the country in 1974. The whole of Phnom Penh was evacuated being told that the US were on their way to ...

Blood Bank :D We had gone to the childrens hospital one evening and watched a performance/presentation about a swiss doctor who has lived in Cambodia since the 60's, but having to leave during the Khmer Rouge take over in 1974-1979. He has devoted his life to building hospitals for Cambodian children and providing free treatment for all children and women in childbirth. During his presentation he had mentioned that blood donations were welcomed greater than fina...

Siem Reap Volunteer teaching... We were at a restaurant doen a side street, when we were approached by a boy who looked 16/17 years old. He was selling t-shirts for the orphanage/school called SOID. But we insisted we didn't want to buy the t-shirt but instead we wanted to volunteer our own flesh and blood. Two days later we had our guesthouse Tuk Tuk driver take us to the school, which was a few kilometres out of the city. We had paid for the Tuk Tuk to stay w...

The Angkor Temples! At 8.15am we set off on our chauffered Tuk Tuk which costs $20 for a whole day (£15). An hour away was our first temple Banteay Srei. It was a scenic drive where we passed villages, kids jumping into roadside pools and lakes. We stopped and had a photo taken and a pass printed from the entrance so we could proceed into the area of the temples. Each pass was $20 (£15) so already with just the passes alone, we had spent our daily budjet. But ...

Crossing the Cambodian border So leaving the hustle and bussle of Bangkok (or Bangcock as I kept writing it!!! oops. Dan was always soon to correct me, as always). Yet again we are travelling on a bus/coach to Siem Reap, a 7 hour journey across the border and for yet our 3rd country of SE Asia to show us what they've got. The next chapter begins... Although our LP (Lonely Planet) is 2 years out of date we do always read up about the country we are going to. So ...