Edinburgh Girl

Our journey to Siem Reap was long. Instead of going straight to Siem Reap from Sihanoukville, we had to travel back to Phnom Penh and then wait for an hour at the bus station to change on to the Siem Reap bus. This meant it took us 12 hours to get there! We've definitely did our fair share of long bus journeys on the trip. I feel I can do any bus journey now after being on one for 25 hours from Laos to Vietnam. Although I vowed never to do something like that again! We stayed at Sizen Retreat and Spa in a lovely bungalow surrounded by trees. We had a restaurant beside our bungalow and a great pool. We arrived quite late at night to check in so got food at the restaurant and then had an early night. The next day we went to Peace Café for lunch. We sat outside in their massive garden enjoying the sunshine. It's a vegetarian health café and they hold yoga classes their too. We thought we would have a healthy meal after all the unhealthy food we had been gorging on. T

We had an interesting tuk tuk ride from the centre of Sihanoukville out to our hotel. We arrived in the centre about 7.30pm and our hotel was 15 minutes outside the main town, near Otres Beach. Sihanoukville is a beach town with their most famous beach being Serendipity Beach. If you travel further along the coast you would come to Otres Beach where we were staying. We flagged down a tuk tuk and the driver said he knew where our hotel, Sok Sabay Resort was. He in fact did not, neither did he speak much English. We spent over an hour trying to find our hotel as the driver kept stopping to have a look at the map on my phone or ask people for directions along the way. As we became closer to the hotel there begin to be less and less people going about and soon it became just the tuk tuk driver and us on dark woodland tracks. I was genuinely thinking we were never going to get there or he was going to drive us into the woods, rob us and just leave us there! Thankfully, neither of those th

The quickest and smoothed border crossing we had was from Vietnam into Cambodia. We travelled from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh with the bus company Cambodia Luong. The whole border experience was pretty much stress free. We had been dreading each journey that had a border crossing as we knew that meant hanging about waiting ages in queues to get your stamp for leaving a country and your visa for entering the next. It worked out great as our bus company basically did everything for us. We gave our passports and visa payment of $35 to our guide on the bus and he filled out the forms for us and handed our passports in to the immigration officers. All we had to do was go up to the Vietnam immigration when they called our name to show we were leaving the country. All in all, it only took us about half an hour which was such a relief! Our journey into Phnom Penh was absolutely fine. We arrived into the city centre and got a tuk tuk to our hotel Home Chic Hotel. The people in Cambodia ar