There and back again

We are on our way to Ho Chi Min City (previously known as Saigon) and are having a stopover in Phnom Pen just so that we are not stuck on a bus for 13 hours. We’ve had a lovely Christmas by the sea in Sihanoukville, during which time I have been particularly special doing things [...]

Merry Christmas everybody. Hope your not feeling to rough this morning. We will be spending the day on the beach doing not very much and possibly having a beer or two this evening. Vijay & Anne 2006 xxxx

We are now at the low key resort town of Sihanoukville around four hours from Phnom Penh and are going to hole up here in a (slightly) nicer hotel for a few days to catch our breath and have a minor christmas break.

After the highs of Ankhor, today we saw the darker side of Cambodian history with visits to a couple of paticularly gruesome and somber historical sites. The Khmer Rouge regime executed about 1.7 million people (about one fifth ofthe population of Cambodia) between 1975 and 1979, in a place called Choeung Ek, also known as [...]

I am sitting in an internet cafe in Siam Reap watching gekos scale the wall behind the computer screen chasing and devouring bugs almost the same size as themselves, could do with some of those at home!