November 4th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East » Kampong Cham
And thus begun our experience of local buses. We took a six hour bus from Siem Reap to Kampong Cham. All the seats on the bus are assigned by number. Luckily we were placed near the front of the bus w ... 8 photos [full story]

September 28th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East » Banlung
Tag 1: Anreise Mit Tabletten fuer meinen Bauch bepackt, gings um 7 Uhr los. Der Bus war bis auf den letzten Platz belegt. Ich der einzige Barang (westlicher Tourist). Wir kaempften uns durch den Verk ... 29 photos [full story]

August 18th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East
I landed safely in Beijing today about 2:40 local time, or 2:40AM EST I have been up now for about 24 hours straight. I was able to talk them into giving me an exit row, so my legs feel great, but I ... [full story]

July 1st 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East » Kratié
The rumor is true.....we are coming home due to lack of funds!!, you have now heard it officially from us. We fly home on 4th October, we are still going to all of the countries we planned to just spe ... [full story]

June 19th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East » Kratié
The Cambodian border was a little wooden hut about 100m further down the road than the Lao hut that stamped us out. We were left standing on the roadside with our backpacks for ages while visas were i ... [full story]

June 17th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East
I haven’t done anything worth reporting since I got back from Siem Riep. There was some brief excitement when we received a visit from one of the Phnom Penh psychiatrists and some Belgian women ... 4 photos [full story]

May 26th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East » Banlung
Even though we had bought our Cambodian visas in Bangkok we had been warned that the border guards on the Cambodian side would likely demand around five US dollars for "Administration Taxes" that didn ... 9 photos [full story]

May 22nd 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East » Kampong Cham
We left 4000 islands at eight on another little boat and made our way across (again!) to the mainland. We waited around for ages for another boatload of people and were then squeezed into a little min ... 8 photos [full story]

May 10th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » East » Kampong Cham
Kampong Cham the third biggest city in Cambodia although you'd be forgiven to think that it was no more than a large town. This was an overnight stop between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap and whilst the to ... 10 photos [full story]