Phimeanakas Old Gate Siem Reap

From door to door, Bangkok to Siem Reap, it took us just over 13 hours of exhausting travel. It began at 5:30 am when we headed out the door to board the ancient rickety train to Thailand's border town with Cambodia. Arriving at Aranyaprathet around noon, we haggled for a tuk tuk to the border. Once there, well-dressed name-tag wearing men tried to …

So we took a night bus from Sihanoukville to Siem Riep. It has to be one of the worst journeys we have been on yet - mainly due to the fact that the road was very badly maintained and our driver wanted to get there as quickly as possible. At one stage we hit a pot hole so fast that both of us thought the bus was going to tip over. We were also held …

Angkor Wat

I only had one shot to get a good sunset at Angkor Wat, so I needed to get there early to find a good spot.

The hotel was kind enough to prepare boxed breakfast this morning. I was up at 4:30am and out the door by 5am. My poor driver is already waiting for me. It would be a long day for him!

On the road to …

Was planning on having a bit of a sleep in before the small tour today but some arseclowns one road over decided that wanted to play horrible Cambodian music that sounds worse than cats stuck under a running shower from 5:30. Extremely loudly, I've hear softer bands at pubs.

Turns out the sun decided it wanted to shine today, so I could&# …

We arrived at our guesthouse a day earlier than we had booked as we stayed on our bus rather than getting off halfway to spend the night. We were shattered after 13hrs on the bus and of the never-ending Cambodian comedy, music videos and kung-fu films which are played really loudly on all of the buses in Cambodia! But our guesthouse was great ( …