To continue where I left off we made it to Cambodia after a 29 hour, ferry/bus trip from Ko Tao (Thailand) to Siam Riep (Cambodia). The trip wasn’t as bad as it sounds, it was an overnight arrival into Bangkok and then to the border with similar people (westerners) a slight fight with corrupted border officials on the actual price of visas and one more nonairconditioned very dusty and a little bumpy bus ride to Siam Riep with our new westerners clan.

Day 2 (first full day in Cambodia) We decided to just relax and go see the downtown a bit. Adam,a new friend traveler from Chicago and myself decided to go have lunch which consisted of our new found diet rice, vegetables, noodles, vegetables, maybe some meat for Adam..Yep I have gone vegetarian again. The new diet has took to both of us THANK GOD! Knock on wood neither of us have gotten sick from any of the food. Oh yeah going to the city from our "Hilton" Hotel (They must know how good a hilton is back home to have named the nice…but not hilton nice hotel we were staying at) we took a Tuk Tuk carriage covered scooter ride with our adopted tour guide Tom. That was interesting, very interesting. The traffic around here is just mass chaos. Basically anything goes, and no one looks behind them. They make left turns by crossing traffic and then just weaving through oncoming traffic until they can get to turning left. Its pretty unnerving at first now its no biggie. Foreigners were not allowed to rent scooters so we were all safe in our Tuk Tuk.

After the adventure around town, we all decided to make or way up to the infamous temples for sunset. The three of us along with 500 of our closest mostly Asian friends watched a beautiful sunset sitting atop Phnom Bakheng. Pictures hopefully posted today…

Day three in Siam Riep was a duesy, Tom our local tour guide took us to Prasat Kravan, Pre Rup, Ta Som, Preah Khan, Ta Prohm (which is famous for being on the Tomb Raider movies), Ahgkor Thom, and the biggest of them all Angkor Wat. 7 hours of temples, you could say we were all templed out! Although quite an impressive thing to see and experience, we were all very happy to have seen one of the seven wonders of the world. Check that off…only 6 to go.

Day one to now I have seen things I never though I would see in my wildest dreams…well at least not by the age of 24. I arrived into Bangkok just two weeks ago after 20 hours of travel, and one wrong itinerary emailed off to Adam we some how managed to find eachother in the airport. We are all allowed blond moments once and a while right? After a few strolls down Khaosan Road (Backpackers unite and buy anything imaginable), and a hot walk around some temples in Bangkok,we were wisked away on an overnight bus to Koh Paghnan. After arriving to our destination paradise of Hat Rin Nai we skipped the much needed showers of a 12 hour excursion and headed out to the beach for an also much needed beer. We spet a few days around the area, with a one day tour to Anthong National park-such a beautiful place! To paint a picture since I am having no luck with my pictures-Islands everywhere, great snorkeling, kyaking, hiking, Thai lunch buffet on the beach, just an all around beautiful day.

After a pool party, and a skip on the black moon party we made our way up the north coast of the island to my new favorite place Bottle beach. Where the people were as welcoming as the place.  One vertical hike up to a lookout point, and many many hours playing cards and soaking up the sun, after three days we agreed if we didn”t leave soon we could stay forever.

A short ferry ride and we were in Koh Tao-Diving capital of east asia. I’m not much of a diver so we skipped out on the diving and just enjoyed our little beach where our bungalo was propped. The beach is something we can both agree on at any point of time, but to be honest thats not exactly why we both made the trek half way around the world. So we were off once again.

Probably-and hopefully-our longest trip of the two month holiday we finally made it to Cambodia. Which is where I will stop at right now and describe when I am not sitting in my own pool of sweat in this internet cafe in Siam Riep Cambodia. We are off to meet some fellow backpackers we have met on our 27 hour journey here-to enjoy 1 dollar margaretas.

Miss u all, and hope that not everyone else is suffering from the epidemic flu my poor family has just gone through. Fam. I hope your all feeling better!