The Main Road - Siem Reap to Battambang

This journey should have taken four and a half hours, however, rain the previous day meant it took ten. The mud was amazing. This pillock decided that his speed would carry him through this major puddle. It didn't. For twenty minutes the crowd watched bemused as he tried again and again to get out. When he did finally make it his exhaust had swallowed so much mud and he'd rev'd it so hard that his engine had a new noise to accompany the blue smoke that poured from it. We were only going to Battambang - I felt sorry for the people going all the way to Bangkok - another seven hours away three of which were along Cambodian mud roads. According to the Lonely Planet, a major airline serving the Siem Reap to Bangkok route is paying the government to make sure the road isn't repaired anytime soon.