Well here I am in Cambodia!!

We spent another few days in Bangkok before deciding that I was fit enough to endure the notorious bus journey into Cambodia (where the medical care isnt recommended).
The bus journey was - as expected - an experience.
We were immediately suspicios when a luxury, aircon, comfortable bus pulled up beside the Khao San Road inviting us on-board...
Of course, that was first the FIRST (and shortest) leg of the journey...
Once we were about half an hour from the Cambodian Border, we were ushered off into this cafe to try and negotiate our Visas. That, in itself, took about an hour and cost more than it should have.
Then we - along with a bunch of other travellers - were loaded onto a truck and taken to the border, where we were held up again.
Finally we got through and were put on a tuk-tuk with two other guys.. we all had our massive backpacks so it was an interesting journey.
We had to sit in another place for about an hour until we were introduced to our new form of transport, which would take us all the way to Siem Reap -- A VAN!
Great.
We spent the next 6 hours or so bouncing about the rocky ''roads'' in the oppressive heat of the van...

When we finally made it to Siem Reap, Camilla, an australian guy we met on the bus and I went out for some food (seen as the bus had helpfully arranged a guesthouse for us...how nice!! :-)
We found some fried frogs, which Gez helped himself to!! Camilla and I opted for the chicken but were confused about which part of the chicken it actually was as there was no meat... just cartilage!! :-)
The next day we headed to Angkor Wat, and long behold my e.coli came back FULL STRENGTH....
grrr
We had to cut that short, whcih was a shame as its an absoultely amazing sight!
The next day we head back up and seen the wat that was the set of the Tomb Raider movie.. and the elephant one as well...
All absolutely amazing and very much inspiring!!
It's probably the most photogenic place I've ever seen.. beautiful!!
Unfortunately I overdone it and really paid for it that evening.
I decided that I'd spent the next 3-4 days in Siem Reap resting indoors and chuggin lOTS of water.
.....

Right now, we're in Phnom Penh, which is SO different from Siem Reap.
Our guest house is right on the lake, which makes for great sunsets... although there are (unfortunately) RATS everywhere!!! gads!!! they were all running about the celling last night!!

By the way, I must say that I had the BEST DINNER last night!!
It was chicken, wrapped in bacon, with cheese sauce, vegetables and chips and it was AMAZING!!!!!!!!
Nearly as good as the (Cambodian) Chicken Amok that I had the previous night in Siem Reap...
Anywho,
We've been pretty much taking it easy today... ready to head up to the museums and possibly killing fields tomorrow, then the day after get the bus to Ho Chi Minh.

We're flying to Singapore on the Friday morning and then flying to Sydney in the evening... which should make for a good day of shopping in Singapore methinks!!! :-)

Anywho... dinner calls!!

Speak soon, kirsty xxxxx