We took a mini bus from Kampot to Sihanoukville, where we transferred to a two hour boat trip which took us to the stunning island paradise of Koh Rong. Koh Rong is pretty basic – restaurants and guest houses run on generators, there are no cars or roads and there isn’t much to do but…
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Down by the riverside in Kampot
We spent two nights at the delightful riverside town of Kampot. We stayed at Olly’s Place, where for the total of $5 USD a night we had our own grass shack, a communal area right on the riverfront to hang out in (pictured above) and could rent a scooter right next door. We spent our…
Cambodia’s memorials
We spent five nights in Phnom Penh, mostly because we were waiting for our visas for Thailand (four days was the absolute quickest we could get them due to the King’s birthday, and we needed visas because our next stop was two months in Thailand). We had originally planned only three nights there, but we…
Cycling around Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat is actually a complex of temples, which includes the temple known as Angkor Wat, dating from 1125. It is the largest religious complex in the world. There used to be a city there but since only holy buildings were made of stone, these are the only ones that remain. We decided to buy…
Friends, food and a frog in Siem Reap
We had a long day of travel to get to Siem Reap, Cambodia – our day started at 6am when we went to the airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We flew to Chennai, India, where we spent the day waiting for our next flight – unfortunately we were not allowed to wait inside the terminal,…
Meandering Kiwis 