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 Cambodia, the "roads" were non-existent.The itinerary had written on it "Dancing Road Journey".This soon made sense, we jumped on our mini-bus (Cambodian style) and headed off on our dancing road journey.The only way to describe the road, is to think of a really bad private road in England, times that by ten and then drive down it at about 30mph for four hours!!I was riding shot gun (as all Cambodians are short and leg room is none existent).I saw some sights on the trip, some near misses as well.There was a huge boat race at the university, so we stopped to watch that, although it wasn't starting so we had to press on!

We arrived in Siam Repp later in the afternoon after a lot of travelling.We dumped our bags in the guesthouse and then headed out for some Cambodian food.The food here is great, we headed to a local restaurant our local tour guide (Vanny, little Cambodia chap) recommended.I had an Amok, the local main dish, yum!We then headed to the river, as it was the festival of water.A big Cambodian festival, we even bought a little float, lit the candles and sent it off down the river (meant to be good luck).After that we had a quick stroll around before hitting the sack.

Day 13 (Day 3 of Intreprid Trip)

Day 3 of the trip, was to the world famous Angkor temples.Unfortunately this meant a start of 4.45, so we could see sunrise.We arrived and managed to get a perfect spot for sunrise.Although unfortunately it was very cloudy and it just got light, there was no real sunrise.We then spent all day here firstly visiting the famous Angkor Wat temple.A temple over 1000 years old, which took 1million people over 40years to build.Carrying the stone by hand and elephant from the quarry 80 miles away.It was rather impressive, check out the photos!We then visited some of the other temples and tombs, all were incredibly interesting.We had the best tour guide, a Cambodian with a cockney accent, it was hirrarous.With some great sayings "that's f**king brilliant/gorgeous/lovely", "alright treacle", "lets rock and roll em", you had to be there to appreciate it!One was made of faces and was great fun exploring.We had lunch, were I had my chicken Amok served in a coconut which was crafted into a heart shape!We then visited the temple which was used in the Tomb Raider movies.We stopped at the land mine museum, which was a real eye opener.There were several kids who were living there who had missing limbs.It was quite upsetting, especially as there are estimated to be between 3 and 6 million landmines still in rural areas of Cambodia.

We later headed out for dinner, had a Cambodian BBQ which was beautiful.We then hit some bars on "Bar Street", a few Angkor beers later and we were in a Cambodian Tuk-Tuk to the Pyramid Club.Never thought I would go clubbing in Cambodia!!Our tour guide got us into VIP, but unfortunately we were unable to use our cameras!

Day 14 (Day 4 of Intrepid Trip)

Day 4, we didn't have to get up quite so early, but headed off to get our boat for a trip to the floating village, market and the Great Lake.After another dancing road journey we got to our boat.It was a rickety old wooden long boat, which had a steering wheel from an old Honda car and cane furniture for seats (also used to get into the boat!).After a slow ride down the river, past lots of locals fishing, we ended up at the floating village.It was hundreds of wooden houses, built from minimal materials on stilts in the middle of this river/lake.There was a floating market (a big wooden boat) which was going from house to house.Check out the pictures, especially the pigs in cages under the house.We then jumped off our boat to go and visit a local school.This was great fun, we learnt to count to ten in Cambodian, followed by teaching the little kids how to count and say some basic English.After buying all the kids a little notebook and pencil (which they were all so thrilled to receive) we headed off to the Great Lake.It is the biggest lake in the whole of South East Asia.The pictures don't do it justice, it was hard to believe it was a lake!

When we finally made it back to the mainland, next stop was a kid's orphanage.This was really good fun, we meet a number of children whom had lost both parents due to landmines or illnesses which are common here in Cambodia.They performed a little Cambodian style play, before we had time to talk to them and play some games.They were all really happy and excited to see us Western's, which was good!We went to a Silk Farm after, but I think everyone was shattered and ready for a knap!It was a free evening and we enjoy the sights of Siem Reap for the last time.