Monday 23 Jan 2017 As our flight left at 5 pm we spent the day getting sunburnt by the pool. Siem Reap airport is very small and our flight actually left early so we arrived in Laos as the sun set over the mountains. It was a short taxi ride into town and our small guest house and rather utilitarian room right next to the night market. Tomorrow we shall explore the town. Tuesday 24 Jan We spent the day wandering around Luang Prabang, a designated UNESCO worl...

We arrived in Siem Reap late yesterday afternoon after 'a journey from hell'. We had been lucky with our previous bus trips and not had many problems, unfortunately our good luck ran out on this trip. Everthing started out ok and we were picked up as arranged at 6.30 am in Kratie for our trip to Siem Reap. That was the best part of the trip as it went down hill from then. There were four of us travelling and when the bus arrived it has seen better days. It ...

So what have we been doing since we arrived in Cambodia? Well we left our rather grotty hotel room in Phnom Penh and took an early morning mini-bus ride to Kratie, a town to the east of Cambodia along the bank's of the Mekong flowing down from Laos. Kratie is famous for its fresh water river dolphins, something we have decided not to go see as the water is very brown and only the humps of the river dolphins are visible in the murky water. We are in Kratie to h...

Phnom Penh At Phnom Penh we were met by the owner of the airbnb in a Tuc Tuc and taken to the room. Our initial impression was it would do but after we had closed all the windows we realised it was full of mosquitos and there was nowhere to hang the mozzie net so Chris spent the next couple of hours hunting them down! I opened a draw and a cockroach scuttled across the back, then I opened the wardrobe and another one ran across the floor. Unfortunately they c...

After leaving Can Tho we took a bus to Chau Doc to cross the boarder into Cambodia to travel up the Mekong to Phonm Penh by speed-boat. Our guest house arranged for a pick up to the bus station in Can Tho and booked our tickets on the bus, when we arrived at the bus station where we had just to go to the counter that has 'Chau Doc' above, pay for our tickets and jump on the bus. It was a 3-4 hour bus ride to Chau Doc where we had a room booked. The bus company...