Phnom Penh to Siem Reap Cambodia

After getting up at 4am I wasn't feeling too great. We arrived at the new airport which looked cool lit up. I sat down whilst Steve queued up to check our baggage in, as he got to the front I tried joining him in the queue only to be sick on my chair, on the floor on my way to the queue and again in the queue with Steve! Steve said it looked like the scene from Little Britain! Luckily it was all clear liquid and didn't contain the minstrels from the night before and it made me feel better!

We arrived in Phnom Penh the capital of Cambodia after a 1 hour 10 minute flight, as we approached Phnom Penh practically the whole countr appeared to be under muddy water! Cambodia is mad, the traffic drives on all sides of the road simultaneously and it's chaos. We got some kip and visited the Royal Palace which was very pretty. After another kip we went to happy herb pizza for tea but we didn't opt for the "happy pizza"!

The next morning we got up early to catch the Mekong Express for our 6 hour bus ride to Siem Reap. The journey was interesting as we spotted cows, buffalo, pigs etc in peoples front gardens which were pools of muddy water, people were also washing their clothes in the water whislt the children played.

Amazingly we arrived in Siem Reap without being submerged in water and took a Tuk Tuk to our accommodation. At first our $5 dollar a night room looked okay but after a closer inspection was quite dirty and we were not really in the hub of Siem Reap.

Our Tuk Tuk driver took us to the temples of Angkor Wat and we bought our 3 day pass and went to see the sunset. We drove past the main temple of Angkor Wat which is an amazing sight. Along with 1000 other people we trekked to the top of a hill climbed up some very steep steps just to watch the sun go behind a cloud on the horizon.

We slept well that night as we were exhausted.

Helen x