Bangkok & the long long road to Siem Reap...

After our not so fantastic day out in Bangkok we had a much better night planned. We were off out to meet Jess and Chris for dinner. I went to school with the both of them and Jess is one of my oldest friends and they happened to be in Bangkok at the same time as us (amazing considering they are on a 10 month trip). After a huge catch up and a few too many Chang's, we hit The Club on Khao San Road. It was so good to see some friendly faces in a city we were all hating. We got some tips and some horror stories from them, got drunk, danced and got a selfie with some of the army on the way home - what a fabulous night!! 

Saying bye was strange as it will now be December when I next see Jess back at home - weird

Back at home by 12 because of the curfew we were sure we'd wake up in time for our 7am call for going to the floating market. Guess what? We didn't go. By the time the tour knocked our door the first time I had already decided that the girls could go without me as I had already been. After they had knocked "twice time!!!" the girls also said no way were they getting up. We didn't manage to get our hungover selves out of bed until the afternoon when the receptionist shouted at us for not waking up :(

We did a bit of shopping and booked our ticket to Cambodia. Less than £5 for a ticket in to the centre of Siem Reap (or so we thought)

This time we made our early morning pick up and got on the minibus. After 5 long ours spent next to the worst smelling man, we were at our stop. We bought our visas and had some bants with the Cambodian men who thought it was "lovely jubbly" that we were British and that we all looked "same same.. But different". If any of you have seen my passport photo, i'd just like to take this opportunity to let you know that when they were giving them back to us, they thought it was Lisa! (Gutted Lis).

We made 2 potential friends on the bus but quickly realised they were both one of the B's. Double B is what we have decided most girls we have met so far fall under. I think you can guess what kind of B the patronising 'ive been travelling for 2 years' girl fell in to. Safe to say we sacked them off and found a separate place to stay. 

The border itself took a while and we then had another long journey with too many 'just 40 minute toilet break'. We finally got to a bus station in the middle of nowhere at about 8pm. Just a mere 4 hours  longer than we were told to expect. We were ushered in to a tuk tuk to make our way to the town centre and one of the first things we saw was 3 men crash their scooter and fly in to the air and skid across the road. A horrible sight and we held on tighter to our seats. 

Our first dinner was on Pub Street, our new favourite place. We were soon reminded where we were when a cockroach fell off of the ceiling and in to one of our glasses - welcome to Cambodia!! I have now had 3 fall on my on different occassions, and yes i've screamed every time.

Our first day in Siem Reap and i already love it, even the tuk tuk drivers are more polite! We spent the day exploring and the evening trying to drink 2 buckets each to get an Angkor What?! T-shirt. Success. 

What a night, and my hangover was one of the worst. Luckily we have just moved hostels to one with a pool, and im currently sat in the garden waiting for brownie and movie night to start, pretty amazing.