Firstly, sorry for orangutan again, but this is the only picture stored on this site under Cambodia and I need to upload some more pictures. We returned to the Royal Palace (legs safely hidden) and the Silver Pagoda, which comprised some exquisite buildings and lush gardens. Inside the pagoda the floor is carpeted with 5000 silver tiles weighing 1kg each and there is a life-sized Buddha made of solid gold and decorated with 9584 diamonds, the largest weighi...

Not very impressed with Battambang, so decided to leave the very next day (Sunday) and being the intrepid travellers that we are, Maria and I decided to venture down to the market place to find a taxi to take us the 4 hours to Phnom Penh. No sooner had we arrived there than we were overwhelmed with drivers offering to take us at well over the asking price. When we started haggling we were met with guffaws of laughter and before long the entire market seemed to ...

Not much to say about Battambang, except that the toilet in our room absolutely reeked and brought back horrible images of India. So, because of this I thought we could have a general waffle postcard about nothing much in particular. Having seen all the temples we wanted to and exhausted nearly all the bars in Siem Reap, we decided to head on out to Battambang on the 0600 boat. This being the case, the previous night was probably not the best time to stay ...

Firstly I would like to apologise for the gap since the last postcard and also the fact that as a result of this, this may be a long one! We spent 3 days discovering the Temples of Angkor, which were built between the 9th and the 13th centuries by a succession of Khmer devaraja (god-kings). We had a little moto (motorcycle with tuk tuk type thing attached to the back) and were driven around the temples by a very nice man called Set. Day 1 - Woke up at ...

Well hello again everyone and welcome to the latest epistle. Hope I'm not boring you too much yet! Yesterday (Sunday 10th) we decided it was time to leave the bustle of Bangkok and head East into Cambodia. Before our departure we had to stock up on the latest malaria tablets, side effects of which include ulceration of the oesophegus and swelling of the head!! I am still with Maria and Alan and we left the hotel at 0630 to book our tickets on the bus to ...