After an absolutely crazy/stupid wake up time of 0300 we were at the Airport in Vientiane ready for our flight, although it doesn't seem they are using the gorgeous new terminal yet and we had to walk over to the old one, nice and rickety! probably could be classed as a Unesco site itself as a french relic. The first leg of the flight had us doi...

The bus journey to Siem Reap turned out not to be so bad after all...only 7 hours rather than the anticpated 12! When we got off the bus we were completely surrounded in tuk-tuk drivers all shouting at us. We couldn't even think and even telling them the go away in every form of the English language we could think of, they wouldn't leave us alon...

We arrived in Siem Reap after a very bumpy and uncomfortable bus journey to be greeted by the usual army of tuk tuk drivers. Luckily we had arranged to be picked up with the hostel so we found our driver and were soon at the hostel for some lunch and a shower before heading to Angkor Wat for sunset. Angkor Wat is the main temple in the Angkor co...

Well - the flight I was supposed to be taking home leaves from Bangkok in about an hour. I'm really hoping that the travel agent I paid $5 to to change my ticket to 'open ended' knew what he was doing, as I never received any kind of confirmation number - just a "call China Airlines 2 weeks before you want to travel". Hmmmmm. I guess I'll find o...

Firstly I would like to say, I take back all the bad things i've ever said about the British transport system, I love South West Trains, I also love Stagecoach, I think they're doing a great job, sure they're late every now and then, but who isnt? they're only human afterall! We arrived in Cambodia after a 15 hour journey. The first part of the ...

Rich** We landed safely in Kuala Lumpor after a gruelling flight from London's Heathrow, after a flight from Manchester. With me so far? Good. Next came a transfer flight to Johor Bharu which took only a couple of hours, where we where met by Mel's godfather (not a gangster) who lives in Singapore. He drove us through the border as I partially f...

Cambodia had long been on our list of places we wanted to see because of the amazing temples of Angkor. Cambodia is a nation that is struggling to rebuild itself after 3 decades of civil war and years of terror and trauma, including the four year reign of genocide terror that Pol Pot inflicted on the nation. Tourism is about to take off for Camb...

Almost the second I arrived here I told the bartender that I was probably going to stay longer than I thought. When planning this journey one attraction that was impossible to leave out were the archeological wonders of Angkor Wats outside of the town of Siem Reap. It is a massive complex of temples and is the largest religious building in the w...

We returned to Angkor today for more sightseeing. Our first stop was Banteay Kdei, a Buddhist monastic complex built in the middle of the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th. The next stop was Ta Prohm, built mid-12th to early 13th century. It was mostly left untouched by the archeologists, except for adding extra support, and so it looks ...

I¡¦ve been having a real hard time trying to figure out what to write about Siem Reap, and my experiences in Cambodia in general, so forgive me if this entry lacks the usual articulation. When I began to plan the logistics of my trip, I thought of Cambodia as a transitional journey, linking Thailand and Vietnam. I figured I'd spend a few days ch...