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May 10, 2005

Just a fill in of recent countries!

Ok, since I'm starting this halfway through my trip I'm going to back track a tiny bit over where we were last. We spent just over 3 weeks in Cambodia, a scarred but awesome country.

The route went as follows (if you have a map of Cambodia you can follow the insanity of our route!);
1. Entered at the border with the Southern-most tip of Lao and hot-footed it down to Phnom Penn (capital) for new year.View image

2. Moved further South to the beaches in Sihanoukville. Here, the last of our travelling companions left us and we had to think for ourselves. View image Sandy Steve


3. Following some thought we planned the bits we wanted to see and shot over to Kampot, slightly East of S'ville.

4. Back to Phnom Penn (for a bit of Culture!)
on our way to explore the North East, a further 2 days trip on from PP, on of which was undertaken in a rather hunched position in the back of a ISUZU 4x4 on the worst road in Cambodia for 8 hours from which my neck was aching for 2 days. So we got to Ban Lung, saw some waterfalls
and swam in a volcanic lake
then headed back to PP....

5. In PP again we were on our way to Siem Reap to see the glorious temples of Angkor Wat (I mean that). We sat on a good bus on a good road. Spent 2 days looking at temples, favourites were Bayon
and Ta Prohm
which is reclaimed by nature. We also met up with some lovely American ladies who we had been bumping into for a couple of months, we went to a crazy night club and generally hung out.

6.From Siem Reap we moved to Battambang to see some stuff, it turned out to be a bit of a quiet one but with good ice cream and amazing countryside, also really really big bats!

7.From here we moved towards the border with Thailand and crossed, without incident, to the tourist capital of SE Asia. Alothough a guy did try to charge us 300 Baht (4 pounds) for nothing but we foiled his scam!

That's the summary of our Cambodian adventures, I hope you enjoyed the pics!

Posted by David G on May 10, 2005 06:40 AM
Category: Cambodia, back a bit.
Comments

David Gregory! Me and my flat want more pictures and more adventures!! Snap to it woman!

Posted by: Samantha on May 25, 2005 01:39 PM
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