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. ...

Before leaving on our trip, we booked a Bamba Bus tour from Bangkok through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and then back to Bangkok. This included all our transport for the countries listed and experiences in some of our stops along the way. For example our bicycle tour in Bangkok and our trek in Chiang Mai were through Bamba. We had already paid for Bamba before we left so this meant we didn't need to bring as much spending money on our trip. All we had to do is decide when we wanted to move on to the next place, email Bamba to book it for us then someone picks us up from our hotel, takes us to the bus station, buys our tickets and then shows us what bus to go on. Pretty easy for us! It's probably more expensive than if you did it by yourself but it's far easier doing it this way especially for first time travellers to South East Asia. We spend a lot of our time looking for our next accommodation so on top of that we would have to look into transport as well. We will ha...