If you are visiting Cambodia, a trip to the temples of Angkor is a MUST!! A one day pass for foreign nationals costs $20 (in 2007). This is all the time I needed to see all the temples, though some people like to spend up to 5 days enjoying them. What we did was go to the temples at 5pm, the one day pass covers you from 5pm one day and the whole of the next day as you cannot spend too long there. This was enough time to enjoy Angkor Wat, the largest religious temple in the world and watch [View Full Entry]

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Phnom Penh is a fairly busy place and certainly not clean by any means, but it is the poorest country in south east asia afterall! Lakeside is the backpackers haven. A side street from the main city next to the lake. I would recommend the Numebr 9 or Sister number 9 guesthouse. Sitting on the lake with very basic rooms but excellent common areas. A pool table, hammocks, tv with a variety of movies for your enjoyment, 24hr food and drink and the staff are pretty cool! Not to mention the lake that it sits on. Lakeside has plenty of tuk [View Full Entry]

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Having returned to Phnom Penh after a 4 week stay in the Cambodian forest, myself and some of the group I had met on the trip took a bus up to Siem Reap. It was a 6 hour journey on a rather pleasant air conditioned coach arranged by our guesthouse. When we got there we got some tuk tuks to take us to the guesthouse of our choice. Unfortunately they had no available rooms so we asked the drivers to take us to a cheap place not too far away from the centre. We stayed at the Bakong Lodge. Clean rooms [View Full Entry]

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