Sunday, 28 February 2010

Finally into Cambodia

After a bad attempt to get an early night sleep, we got up early very tired but ready to travel. Everything proved promising after a minibus ride to the border town Poi-Pet. However, once again it proved more difficult than expected to cross the border. After some confusion we discovered we had overstayed are welcome in Thailand as are visa had run out the day before...urgh. With some long queuing and a small fine we thankfully got through. On the cambodian side we decided to travel by taxi to are destination of Siam Reap as this would cut down are travel time by several hours, we then watched as a rust bucket or debatably a car approached towards us. We reluctantly got in the peace of metal with Grieve not only noticing severe cracks in the window but the speedometre and rev counter also failing to work, not only this there seems to be no road laws with the only right of way being the beebing of the horn. Fortunately are promised shorter journey turned out to be true and we arrived at a rather pleasent guest house where we then booked a tour round the temples with a 5am start. With an early start the next day and still feeling tired from our travels we decided to get an early night. In the morning Grieve felt rather ill and decided to stay at the guest house, i then persued to get stuck in the toilet with the door not opening. Felly, however, was determined not to travel alone and thankfully bashed the door open (typical forward thinking). Felly and I (walmsley) went about touring the temples, seeing several temples including Ankor Wat at sunrise and the same temple in the film Lara Croft was amazing. With a large amount of the day still ahead of us we went back to check on Grieve who still felt worse for wear. So Felly and I decided to go on to the national history museum which proved most interesting. Later in the day with Grieve feeling better we traveled into town to look around and watch the six nations. Edging to move on we caught a bus ride the next day to Phnom Penh where I was greeted with welcome signs at the bus station. Confused as to weather i was unknowingly a national celebrity we procided to are next guest house where we are know chilling. Tomorrow (1st march) we have a booked tour around the city to see a large number of the surronding tourist attractions.

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