Cambodia - Angkor Wat!!

So the adventures continue and this time all on my own. I was a bit apprehensive to start with but got use to meeting lots of new people with in seconds. So after taking my sisters advise and befriending any white people you see I met a really great girl called Corinne from the US. We met on the bus from Bangkok to Siem Reap at the boarder crossing. I'd read about scams at the boarder online so was a bit nervous and decided to befriend Corinne. We made it to Siem Reap after travelling all day and we were booked in to different hostels so went our separate ways for now.

I stayed in One Stop Hostel right next to Pub Street in Siem Reap, and it was a great location for everything. The next day I booked on a tour to explore the magnificent Angkor Wat and surrounding temples. The day was extremely hot but packed full with interesting facts about the temples from our tour guide. There was also 12 other people on the tour so was great to chat to people from Australia, Brazil and Russia!

We also visited the temple where Tomb Raider was filmed which had great giant trees growing up through the ruins. Following this we went to Angkor Thom where there were loads of faces in the stones.

After climbing a hill to see a failed sunset as it was too cloudy we ventured back to the town.

That evening I met up with Corinne for a pub crawl with a few other people we had met at the hostel, Maya, Steph and Angela. The night was so funny, they took us to this strange Cambodian carnival/funfair where we had a few drinks and then made it back to pub street and continued the drinking games! I was with a few Canadians and Americans and they have slightly different drinking games rules to me, but just about managed to keep up. After a failed attempt to find drunk food in the form of Pizza it was time to sleep.

The next day (after sleeping in till noon) I met up with Corinne and we went for a great hangover lunch at the Blue Pumpkin followed by chilling at a local hostels pool. That evening after meeting more people in the hostel we went for street food dinner and a few drinks. but as Maya and I had to get up early the next day for another temple tour we decided to call it an early night. Corinne was headed to Phnom Phen that evening on a night bus. (We meet up again in Phnom Phen)

The grand tour of more temples was great, but I could help feeling a little bit templed out! They where still all amazing and great to see. We got back to the hostel about 3pm where I chilled until I was getting a night but to Phnom Phen.

The night bus of HELL!!! Ok maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it was certainly an experience. It was a sleeper bus, but it was like sharing a bed smaller than a small double bed with a smelly male stranger, I think at one point he was spooning me. And although you can lie down it was still very uncomfortable. My advice to anyone travelling on your own, get the "Hotel Bus" I guess it would have been fine if you are with someone you know and your not cuddling a complete stranger!

With Love from Cambodia xxx