Hotel Phnom Penh

... Luke put on his ear protection as the spotter went over the basics with him. The spotter away and let Luke fire at will. I had to cover one ear as I tried to get some good photos while Terry filmed it. Luke fired off 100 rounds pretty quickly into a mound of sand. They were chain fed rounds, the main thing I remember was the sound of the action clicking through shells and discharging them out of the other side.

It was Terry’s turn again. Heather wanted to throw a ...

... by backpack, so we felt sufficiently sorry for him to give him a days business, and arranged for him to give us a tour of the town later on.

We toured S-21 (the Tuol Sleng museum - a school building used by the Khmer rouge to house, torture and kill political prisoners in the 70s), the famous Russian market and the King's palace and silver pagoda (for which we unfortunately ran out of camera batteries and alas have no photos of some of the most beautiful ...

After crossing the border from Laos, our first taste of Cambodia was the small, dusty town of Stung Treng. This wasn't the best welcome to Cambodia and so when we returned to our bus, after the hour long stop-over, we hoped that the capital would paint a brighter picture.
We arrived late that night and it was obvious from the moment we stepped out of the tuk tuk that the area we were staying in was sleaze central. We couldn't move more than two steps without getting ...

... even though they were meant to leave on sunday. Next day packed and got bus to Siem Reap with Andrew and seb, managed to read how to be good on the bus up! which i was happy with.
Siem Reap is very touristy not like PP were every one is so laid back. Went out our first night there for few beers but nothing excessive as we rented bikes to ride around the temples.
got up to ride to temples find our bikes are really ****** but that is the beauty of it all as was so much fun riding ...

... We think they had seen up coming a mile off and they followed us all around the two hills acting as guides. Their English was very good and they seemed to know French and German as well – pretty impressive for kids who spend all day pouncing on tourists rather than going to
school.

From the top of the hill we could see for miles. Cambodia is a flat country and the only other hills were far in ...

... culture topic swilling non governmental organisms. I watched the poor that evening, we shot the bull plenty, but I had my eyes firmly on the homeless and destitute. A lady and her young son had taken residence in the gap between two street lamps, they were very close together, leaving maybe 2-3 feet of space which they had claimed as their own for the night. They begged for most of the time we were sat down, she was quite old, she looked to be in her 60's but I imagine she was ...

... riots in 2003 that destroyed the Thai embassy and Thai businesses in Phnom Penh. This occurred after an article appeared in a Cambodian newspaper accusing a Thai actress of insulting Cambodia by stating that she would only visit Cambodia when they returned Angkor Wat to Thailand. Ouch! Well, that may have been a fabricated story or a misinterpretation at best, but that didn’t stop Hun Sen from announcing that the little Thai cutie was not worth ‘even a blade of glass from ...