Phnom Penh

After arriving in the capital I felt we should sympathise with famous sports stars – we were literally mobbed by people trying to get us to stay at their guesthouse or backpackers - signs and posters were shoved in our faces as we tried to grab our big bags, and people yelling to promote their place over another!! It was hilarious :) well, once you realised there really was no other option but to just laugh. I couldn’t even see Patrick for the “sea” of people, and when I said “eh..PD, are you still here?!” several of the mob around me then turned towards him shouting “PD, PD, you come with us...we have clean room, very good price, etc etc”!! We managed to pay a tuk-tuk driver $1 just to get us out of there and take us to the Lakeside, where all of the guesthouses are anyway - then we could have a look and compare!

Our first night was pretty quiet, but I went out to explore a bit (Patrick still wasn't feeling too great), and found this New Zealand couple, Marius and Xania (who we'd met and experienced the wonderful bus ride to Siem Reap with!)- really nice folk. There's a great wee restaurant in the main backpacker area called The Lazy Gecko - owned and run by a Canadian, Juan, who was really helpful about things to see and do. Got some good info and started to make some plans... :)