After several more hours on the road we arrive in Siem Reap at our hotel for the next 2 days. It's one of the nicer ones, with breakfast included, free wifi, air con and a swimming pool. After just a few minutes to freshen up we pile into tuk tuks for what we're told is a 'homestay dinner'. In fact we visit a very poor slum area of Siem Reap and the extent of poverty in Cambodia becomes really clear. Luke in particular found it all very eye-opening. We visit a l...

After one night in Bangkok we jumped in a minibus, whose interior was either designed by someone ahead of their time or someone with no clue about style, and headed towards the border. The journey was long and the Thai drivers were fearless. Emma caught up on some sleep whilst I looked out of the window and made silly comments. I prefer to think of them as quite witty but I have been told otherwise. We made it to the border where we drove through a very large mar...