The Phnom Phen is mightier than the sword

Phnom Phen is the capital of Cambodia, famous for crazy shinangans where you can do anything that you want. Situated towards the South of Cambodia, it was a five hour journey from Siam Reap.

Unfortunately there werent enough seats to get the bus with Michelle, Gabrelle and Abraham and I didnt realise it but that would be the last time that I would see them (guys if you do by some stroke of luck read this - please get in touch!).

So I jumped on another bus and off we set, the road between Siam Reap and Phnom Phen is amazing and smoothier than a babys bottom when compared to the border to Siam Reap. For this I was grateful, I started feeling pretty rough that morning and on the bus it was getting worse. What didnt help was that the buses air-con was set to freeze your bollocks off.

They put a Bruce Lee movie which was dubbed into Khmer. The editing team have to commended in their dubbing effort, not only do they dub random sentences, they also manage to leave out all sound effects except the occasional punch sound every 3 minutes or so. With this quality movie running I read.... before I knew it we were in Phnom Phen.

I planned to meet the rest of the group at their bus and not feeling too great got hounded by the tuk-tuk drivers, admitted defeat and jumped into a tuk-tuk. After 5 minutes of telling him "No, I don't f**king want to look at your guesthouse, we went to the GST bus stop". We waited about 20mins, no bus... I thought well lets go to the guesthouse and wait.
Off we went the tuk-tuk driver dropped me off and then tried to charge me $20 for the trip and when I offered him $5 he threatened me with "I dont want something bad to happen to you whilst you are here" so we settled at $6.

I waited and waited, feeling worse and worse and eventually went to bed.

I was staying at the No 9 Guesthouse, which is sat on the lake front and really nice, all the staff were great. The rooms weren't the nicest but they were functioning and didnt smell too bad.

I spent 2 days watching DVDs, saw some great stuff and some bad. A german girl was also ill, so we just felt sorry for eachother and laughed at the fact that all we did was eat, drink and watch DVDs (perfect travellers really!).

Day 3 - I felt better and got another tuk-tuk driver to take me round the Killing Fields and S21, on my way out to get some different food I then noticed that the ba*tard tuk-tuk driver had taken me to No 9 Guesthouse II instead of the first one, bug*er.

Cambodia has some crazy storms (see pics) and the location of the guesthouse is absolutely beautiful with great sunsets and friendly people - superb. Unfortunately down to the fever I didnt get to see too much of the city which is a real shame as there were russian markets that you could get a bargain at but I guess thats just
how things go sometimes.