1st scuba dive, 1st whale shark!

Wow just looked when we blogged last and it was 3 days ago. Its been an "interesting 3 days" So we got up on the morning of the 18th to get the bus back to Bangkok. 14 hours of fun there!!! We had to leave the hostel at 6am so we were both bright and cheery... We got driven to the bus station and after a confusing hour of the bus shuffling back and forth we final set off. This bus is proper beat up. The seats are ok, they are quite squishy, but the ai...

Ok it's been another frantic day of sightseeing. Not even time for lunch but I think we've seen most of what Phnom Penh has to offer. We started the day by going to the S21 prison. An old school that was converted into an interrogation centre and now a museum. Pretty sobering but fairly informative, lots of photos of people staring at you. Amazing to think this was going about the same time I was born. From there we went onto the killing fields which was one of...

Hi chaps, we are now in Phnom Penh! We have been very busy over the last few days - our second day at the temples started a little later - at my request - we started the day with Angkor Thom, a huge walled city with lots of temples inside. I especially liked the elephant terrace which had almost life size relief carvings of elephants all along the front, beautifull. There were too many to name! the afternoon was spent doing the 'grand tour' of all the smaller t...

Hello from sunny Cambodia! The border crossing from Thailand was a little interesting . . . Luckily we had arranged to meet Mr Win, who walked us through the border and put us in a cab on the other side. The cab journey took 3 hours and was punctuated with stops to pick up other passengers, get fags and break really hard everytime we came accross any other traffic. I was glad to get to Siem Reap. Our hapless driver did try to palm us off on a Tuk tuk driver on t...