Day 20 (10 of trip) = 20th November 2008 - Phnom Penh, Cambodia In the morning we jumped on the "public bus" to reach the capital, Phnom Penh.After several hours on the coach we reached the capital.Although it wasn't quite what I had imagined, it was very under-developed (like all of Cambodia).Very few tarmac roads, something I wasn't expecting, although there was a lot more concrete than the rest of the country.After some lunch, we headed off on a qui...

Day 17 (7 of trip) = 17th November 2008 - Sihnaoukville, Cambodia Today was finally beach day, on the South West coast of Cambodia, located off the Gulf of Thailand was Sihnaoukville!As soon as the bags were dumped in the room and some sunscreen applied, the beach was calling.We headed straight for the private beach of Sokha.It was owned by the Sokha Beach Resort five star hotel and resort, but for a few bucks the pool, bars and beach were accessible!It was hea...

Day 16 (6 of Intrepid trip) - 16th November 2008 - HomestayToday we left Kompong Cham behind and drove by public bus to the capital Phonm Penh.Here we changed to a mini bus to get to our home stay at Cambok (two hour's drive from Phonm Penh).The road again was non-existent and the homestay was 'rural' too say the least.We eventually made it to our homestay which was actually a lot nicer than I had imagined.It was a wooden hut, sitting on stilts.Inside it was clea...

Day 15 (5 of Intrepid trip) - 15th November 2008 Day five was one of the strangest days of the trip.We travelled for hours to a small town called Kompong Cham (which is actually the third largest city).Our hotel (Mekong Hotel) had riverside views over the Mekong River (which runs down through Laos and Cambodia).We then rented some bikes (with lovely baskets) and headed off for a bike ride in the pouring rain.After cycling around we headed over to an island via...

Day 12 (Day 2of Intrepid Trip) Today was travelling day, about four hours by mini-bus (air-conned thankfully) to the Thailand/Cambodia border.After reaching the border, we left our nice new mini-bus, placed all our bags in an old rickety cart.They then disappeared into the sun as we headed for the hot sweaty immigration queue.Thankfully everyone sailed through and we were in Cambodia.The contrast was massively different.Thailand was western in comparison to Camb...