Sixteen.

Day 21 The day after the trek we were pretty pooped. We booked a room at a hotel with a hot shower Oeun Sakona. No one spoke English which was very helpful but the room was ok. We thought we would organise some stuff but in the end we did nothing. Lazy. We had a…

Fifteen

Day 19 The jungle trek. We had arranged a two day trek organised by Greenhouse Guesthouse for $65 each. This included lunch/dinner and breakfast/lunch. We were picked up from the guesthouse and taken to the middle of nowhere. This is where we started. There were ten of us in total. Equal amount of English and…

Fourteen.

Day 16 So we were happy to be leaving Kratie. It’s only a small place and we had done what we came for… The locals weren’t so smiley. Maybe they had heard about New Year’s Eve. The transport was getting worse and worse. We were put on a local bus which was already filled with…

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Day 15 The two nurses left for Vietnam and we had Another early start. Sorya Kayak tour. Bad luck for us as no one else was booked on the tour so we had to pay more. Good luck for us as no one else was booked on the tour and we got a private ride….

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Day 14 Did I say that a mini van was going to be quicker than a bus? Oh how naive of me. What we were told would be a five hour trip to Kratie took just over 11 hours. That morning we got in a tuktuk which took us to a pretty guesthouse to wait…

Eleven.

Day 12 We had arranged for a tuktuk to pick us up and take us around the temples for $15. He picked us up at nine and we headed to our first destination. The temples are beautiful. We went to Preah Kahn, Neak Pean and Ta Som which was the smaller ones first. The amount…

Ten

Day 11. It took us about 5 hours to get from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. The mini van was probably the most uncomfortable so far but it had wifi. On arrival a man was standing outside the bus stop with our names on. We got in the tuktuk and told him the name of…

Nine.

We woke up from our nap and went for dinner. We walked for a bit then sat down at a clean looking inside food stall area. We wanted authentic and I guess this was it. We were given the menu which had different varieties of noodle soup. Fish head, Pork intestines, beef stomach and chicken…

Eight.

19 Happy House. I having a strange internal conflict going on about this place. On the one hand it’s full of cockroaches and on the other hand the staff are extremely helpful and there is proper ‘hostel vibes’ – crap music, people boasting about how far they have travelled and cheap beer. All the good…

Seven.

The music in our receptions bar was loud. We probably looked rude getting up and leaving as soon as the guy started playing. Also I don’t mean to sound old before my time, complaining about noise levels whilst being in a bar, but we had shit to get done.  We relocated our maps and various…