When last we left off I think I was in Phnom Penh. I left the next day, by bus going north to Kratie. We had decent roads and my seat had marginally above average leg room for Cambodia. Of course we had interminable Cambodian karoke at too high a volume (just comfortable with earplugs in) which is de rigeur here, a swarm of mosquitos in the bus (I killed 3 and that left another 5 or 6 circling overhead, luckily my repellent held them off in favour of easier victims!) and and the bus broke down once along the way, but only for about 45 minutes before they cranked it back into life. In all, as such things go in Cambodia, a pretty easy experience.

Excitingly, at one pitstop, there was a street-vendor selling deep-fried tarantulas! (see photo) I hid behind my vegetarianism and declined to try.

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Yesterday and the day before were mainly spent exploring Ankor Wat. As expected, pretty damn cool (though I think that Egypt is still the grand prize winner in all categories). Hooked up with a French chap called David on the way down from Bangkok, we seemed to get on pretty well, so it was nice to have some company.

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This is a the first in a series of posts about my 6 week holiday to SE Asia. I’ll try to post once a week.

Claudia and I left London on 10 December and flew to Hong Kong. We had 3 nights there, then took the ferry to Macau, and flew to Bangkok, where we had another 3 nights. From there, Claudia went back to London, while I went on to Penang to see my relatives.

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