Siem Reap and the temples of Angkor

We spent five full days in Siem Reap. This gave us three days to visit the temples and a break every other day to avoid getting templed out too quickly. For this reason, we booked a hotel with a pool which provided the ideal setting for some lazing around. We would highly recommend taking this …

Battambang and the boat to Siem Reap

Getting from Kampot to Battambang entailed a fairly epic, hellish bus journey via Phnom Penh. It was a typical south east Asian bus journey in that we never really knew if we were on the right bus and we were forced to entrust our futures to a group of young bus workers with whom we …

Slowing down in Kep & Kampot

As with most Asian bus travel, our trip from Phnom Penh to Kep took considerably longer than advertised and we pulled in to the beachside town after 5 hours on the road. We say town, but village is probably more appropriate to its size and we found little by way of a cohesive community feel. …

S21 and the Killing Fields

We had booked a half day tour to go to S21 and the Killing Fields, Phnom Penn’s truly gruesome “sights”. As with Auschwitz, we felt that this was something that we should do, and the experience was similarly harrowing. We didn’t take any pictures save for one of the memorial at the end. S21 or …

Exploring Phnom Penh

Bar a small amount of excitement when we realised that Princess Beatrice was on our flight, our journey to Cambodia was largely uneventful. Having navigated our way through the pristine airport we secured a tuk tuk and set off through the hellish traffic of Phnom Penh. Our hotel was only about 10 kms from the …