So, after a hectic journey we made it to Cambodia. Our first stop was Siem Reap. The hostel we had booked was literally a home from home, run by an Australian woman and her English husband. They provided all the necessities we needed (i.e. Jacket potatoes and sandwiches, laundry service that folded and pressed our clothes...amazing things when you've been travelling for a month!!)

Siem Reap is most famous for its Angkor temples, so we hired a nice Tuk Tuk driver to take us round the small temple tour on our first day. There were whole lot of temples to be seen, one of which you can see in the picture above. Some differed, some were very much the same same. But all of them were beautiful, that is for sure! Angkor Wat is the biggest and is surrounded by a huge lake. The only hard thing about this trip was one, the heat, and 2 the child-sellers who attack you as you come out of each of the temples. They want you to buy their scarves, whistles, magnets, books, water etc etc. They don't mind pulling on your clothes or literally following you into your Tuk tuk (which in case you don't know is a motorbike with a carriage on the back). I came away with a flute for a dollar (a wooden one, not a silver one) after the first temple then realised I couldn't buy one of every child so had to just keep my head down every time we exited! The next day we did the same thing but on a wider scale so we took a taxi (same Tuk tuk driver though!) Part of the tour involved going to a Waterfall. It was a bloomin long way up, and involved climbing actual rocks, but it was amazing when we got to the top!!

There was also a cool Night Market in Siem Reap that had various hand made items (I bought a new purse and mine got mislaid somehow!) and massages going on (one included fish sucking at the hard skin on your feet!) with an Island Bar-so of course we had a sneaky cocktail. There is also a great pub street with fun bars and the famous Angkor What? Bar that we didn't drink in but did see them grafitti-ing their outside wall at 8pm at night which funnily enough made most of their customers disappear from inhaling a little too much gas!!

Siem Reap was really beautiful and a great way to experience the Cambodian culture. We were sad to leave after 3 days but were excited to head to Sihanoukville, the beach town!!

We travelled to Sihanoukville over night on a sleeper bus. It was a bit of a bumpy ride but definitely worth it as the 11 hours seemed to fly by! We arrived in Sihanoukville to a sea of tuk tuk and Moto drivers wanting to take us to our destination. This was the first place we hadn't booked ahead and so ran away from the Tuk tuks until a calm tuk tuk found us wandering up the road with our heavy bags and so we asked him to take us to the beach area. He dropped us at a hostel he recommended (which we declined) and we walked and sat outside a supermarket deciding what to do next. Luckily, an English man passed by and offered us a room at his cheap guesthouse very close to the beach, sold! After a shower and a nap we were ready to take on the beach. What we didn't realise was how many beach sellers there would be. As soon as we stepped onto the sand they collared us and followed us to our sun beds, not leaving once we were sitting but sitting with us for a while. The worst part about it was that they were selling pedicures and threading (for your legs) both of which they thought we were clearly in need of! Still, nice to lie in the sun for a couple of hours, finally!Although it didn't last long as the rain started and then didn't really stop until the next day. We were caught in a storm at the restaurant in the evening when there was a power cut and the sign fell down. We then had to make our way back to our guesthouse where the power had also gone so we were given candles to take to bed! Ah, romantic. The day after the storm we hired bikes to travel along the coast. We had a nasty experience with 2 dogs who seemed to go mental as we passed them and made us turn back on ourselves suddenly (although they did start to follow us and then wouldn't let us passed when we tried to go back!) We quickly re-assessed our route and managed to avoid them!

Sihanoukville was definitely worth the visit, although the weather wasn't as great as we wanted. It was similar to a Eurpoean beach resort but not as Chavy and no where near as developed and built up, which is the best thing! A great place to meet people-basically sleep all day (on the beach) and party all night (also on the beach if you fancy it!)

All in all had a great couple of days there but it was time to move on to Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital...