Cambodia March 09

Just crossed over the border into Cambodia, waiting for a bus (we did alot of that!)

There is no in-between in Cambodia, either things are five star luxury or it is pure poverty at its greatest!

The sunsets were some of the best colours I have ever seen.

One of the Temples of Angkor

All of the signs of Buddhism inside the temples were destroyed.

Cambodian housing in the villages is very simple but beautiful I thought - better than the filth and dirt in the cities.

Deforestation is a major problem all over Asia! We do so much to try and save the environment and they are doing this with out blinking an eye as they know no different! it was shocking the scale in which they are doing this!

Me and Andrew on the top of a roof top restaurant just enjoying a cold beer and watching the sun set. I think we could run classes on how to do that!

After leaving the 4,000 Islands and crossing over into Cambodia on the Dong Cra Law border crossing we made our way on yet another very long and very tedious bus journey to Siem Reap but had to stay over night in Kompong Cham as it was such a long distance and the roads are so bad and the buses are so old! we were covered in red dust by the time we got there as "air con" also translates into "wide open windows"! lol

We travelled through such poor areas of Cambodia, and poverty is not the word, on the buses by the time we got to Siem Reap we did not quite believe how posh and clean some of the areas are.

"The rich are getting richer and the poorer are getting poorer" could be the phrase for Cambodia, corruption does not even begin to come close to what we saw.

We did Angkor Wat, the world's biggest religious site (aka Lara Croft Temples old ruins taken back by the jungle)AMAZING! then moved onto the capital Phnom Penh again dirty, disgusting, dangerous areas and turn your head and you have immaculate gardens and hotels and brand new cars.

Cambodia is such a beautiful place geographically but we did not feel safe there and the people we came into contact with either wanted to rob or scam us in some way. Therefore we decided to move onto to Vietnam.................