Day one of the mighty Angkor temples... I arrived back in lovely Siem Reap yesterday, very happy to leave Sisaphon behind and excited about the prospect of seeing the Angkor Wat complex of ruins. Ben and Ambika were back too, so we had a night out to celebrate everyone being back together - ending up in Angkor What? - well, it had to be done. We're trying to find somewhere to volunteer, so if anyone knows of somewhere deserving in Siem Reap let me know - I've g...

Today I've been playing Tomb Raider for real. In search of adventure, Cords and I headed out to the middle of nowhere (there isn't a KFC for miles) to see some ancient ruins. We weren't disappointed... We'd heard about a cluster of remote temples called Banteay Chhmar, quite far North near the Thai border, so headed North to Sisaphon which is the nearest town. Sisaphon is the fourth place now which has a name we can't pronounce - it also has A LOT of flies. Pre...

What do you do in a town where there's nothing to do? Rent motorbikes and set off on an adventure, that's what! Hiring motorbikes was the highlight of our visit to Battambang; our happy band of 6 meant we had the perfect number and we headed off into the unknown with me on the back of Dan's bike acting as backseat map-reader. None of us wanted to follow any specific route so we set off with some poorly copied maps, a lot of enthusiasm and no real clue of where w...

Battambang - the third town in a row I've been to which no-one knows how to pronounce. I'd heard about a boat trip from Siem Reap to Battambang which sounded like an intresting way to see the country, so after talking Cords, Ben and Ambika into it we set off at the crack of dawn, loaded down with snacks and desperately trying not to drink any water (the toilet on board was a hole in the floor of the boat). Our fellow shipmates were a motley crue of locals (I'm...

Phnom Penh, so good no-one knows how to pronounce it... Having thoroughly chilled out on the beach in Phu Quoc I was ready for some adventure so headed North into Cambodia by very choppy boat and really quite nice minibus. I've been reading a lot about Cambodia; testimonies from survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime which chilled me to my bones, so anticipation of the country was mixed with tredipation. I'd heard that Cambodia was less developed than Vietnam, so e...