It is our last full day in Siem Reap, Cambodia and we haven't seen the temples at Angkor Wat yet! Given that is the reason why 99.99% of tourists come here then we thought we had better go. We booked the tour over dinner last night with Sinn. We decided to do the main Angkor Wat temple at 8.30 in the morning and then start again at 3pm to see the Ta Phrom (Tomb Raider) temple and the sunset at Bakheng. We had a driver and a tour guide pick us up from the hotel o...

We are really up against it to get the house finished today. Sinn has to build the stairs and we have a lot of walls to finish and out in place. James is helping the father to put palm leaves onto the gable ends whilst Thali, Izzi and I get to work on finishing off the biggest wall. Izzi stands on a nail in the first 5 minutes so goes to get some treatment whilst Thali and I carry on with fitting the palm leaves. Sinn is working on the stairs and James is giving ...

As we got outof Sinn's van we were greeted by all the children with hugs and smiles, even more than Tuesday and Wednesday as we had been at the building project the day before and hadn't seen them. Like everyday there were a few faces I didn't recognise who hadn't been in on previous days. Although they have a register, school in Cambodia still isn't as strict, many of the children walk in and outof the lessons. On our last day, there were also many children who ...

Gill and Anna came to help on the building project today in an effort to get it finished. I suggested to James that he swap with them and have a day at the school for a bit of respite from the heat and dirt at the building site, but he wanted to come to get the job finished this week, so we all went to the building site. We all got to work straight away on building the walls. To do this you need to take the trellis frames we have built and you turn them over so...

We met Sinn at 7am and this time he had the tour bus to take us to the village, which was a pleasant change from the Tuk-tuks. They are great fun to ride in but hot and dusty to travel any distance. So comfy seats and air-con was a welcome sight. We dropped Gill and Anna off at the school and some of the early arrivers were already there to meet them with big smiles. James and I headed to the building project. When we arrived the girls were already there and the ...