Hi all

Sorry for the gap in blogs but we've been super busy. Went through Saigon and stayed for one night before heading off to Cambodia. Had an eventful start where the taxi driver didnt know where our hotel was (or so he said) and the phone number the travel people gave us was wrong so we couldnt call the hotel. We ended up getting out of the taxi and going to a resturant and calling Australia where a lovely lady called monique rang their person in Siem Reap to find out the correct address. She was just giving me the correct details and I glanced up from where we were sitting at the resturant and realised that the Travel Indochina office was across the street. So we were on the phone to Australia which was on the phone to a person across the street from us. We had to laugh at that. We ended up taking a tuktuk (motorised cart style thing) to the hotel which was very well known - so the taxi driver was either very stupid, or pulling a scam.

The hotel was nearly deserted so we got star treatment from the lovely lady owner. They organised a driver and a car for us to visit the temples - which was airconditioned comfort. We felt like princesses as each time we went to get out of the car we got the door opened for us. Ah...the little things that money can buy.

The first afternoon we went to see the floating village - which was kinda scanky in a world vision save the children way and the high winds and rough sea on the lake freaked me out a bit. We went to this floating pontoon thing in the middle of the lake (its a very big lake so i doubt it was actaully the middle - but you get the drift) where they had crocodiles and crazy fish and lots of junk i think we were supposed to buy. We were meant to watch the sunset but the thought of going across the choppy seas and through the scanky floating village in the dark made me want to throw myself to the crocodiles. We left early.

We started our temple experience the next morning - 430am to be exact. We watched Ankor Wat appear out of the darkness as the sun rose. We were so lucky in that when we first got to the temple (it was pitch black) the other tourists didnt walk down to the reflection pool and we had a good 15 minutes where it was just us and our guide, watching the sky lighten and the Ankor Wat temples become a silloutte. Magical.

I'm not going to rave on too much about the temples as the photos will show you how magical they are. I like the Lara Croft temple the best which has trees growing out of the buildings (and it was where tomb raider was filmed). Amanda loved the women's temple which has the most intricate carvings.

For sunset we got an elephant ride up a mountain and watched the sunset from the temple at the top. Would have been magical if we could have thrown all the Korean tour groups to their deaths.

On the last temple I was hot and bothered, had a headache and was about to pack the s***s when our guide suggested that i sit in the shade for a while in the temple. I sat down near a fortune teller and watched as he told these two local people's fortunes. The fortune teller was every bit the picture of a monk, with his white robe clothes and knowing smile. Amanda and I got our fortunes told - we are to have long marriages (hopefully to each other), we are both lucky (but i am luckier than Amanda) and we will both be rich (but i will be richer). Amanda is strong and lazy. I am smart (I will ignore that he also called me lazy). Sounds about right as far as I'm concerned.

We're just at the airport about to head back to Saigon. Tomorrow we will do the ChiChi tunnel tour - I'm still coming to terms with the 'crawling through the tunnels thing' and then for our last day we have decided just to chill and get a massage.

Home on saturday to a pile of washing (we are currently wearing scanky dirty clothes) and back to work. Sigh. See you all soon.