The trip from Bangkok across the boarder to Cambodia is not fun. Firstly, it takes 12 hours. This wouldn't be a problem if the journey utilised any standard air-conditioned vehicle, and not, in chronological order: the coach Adam & Eve used to leave Eden in, the back of a pick-up truck, my own pins for the two hour boarder crossing, and a mini-bus made of balsa wood with just about enough leg-room for a dachshund. Anyway, got here in one piece (eventually) and got a room with these two blokes from Sussex i met on the way down. The town of Siem Reap used to be, so I'm told, just a few wooden shacks with masses of farmland. Then some chap in 1872 found a shed load of ruins down the road and now it's the
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