Malaria Tablets Suck

Cambodia, 3 stops, 10 days, 1 very ill Robyn.

After a VERY long bus journey from Krabi we finally made it 

to Siem Reap.

We spent a day looking around the amazing markets and drinking the 

fresh fruit shakes they sell everywhere. The next two days 

were dedicated to looking around the temples though we wished we only

 booked one day. 4am start to watch the sunrise at the main and most 

famous temple Angkor Watt was incredible although very busy. 

We also visited the temple where scenes from Lara Croft and Indiana Jones 

were filmed which was our favourite temple as the roots 

had grown over it leaving a ruined effect. 

However, day two was less enjoyable, by then we were sick of temples the 

less famous ones starting to blend into one another combined 

with the heat and having to cover up for respectable reasons 

so we wished we had stuck to day one.

She's being 'Lara Croft'

Our next stop was Phnom Phen, we were only here briefly as 

it's only really the killing fields people stop by for. 

The killing fields shone light on a subject we all knew little about,

we were given an audio guide as we walked around a marked

field and the story of Pol Pot's regime was told to us.

We probably won't go into detail about the whole story as 

it was quite gory at times and not nice to listen to, however,

I think by the end we all couldn't believe that such a horrific

event happened so recently and managed to go on for so long.

Our final stop in Cambodia was Sihanoukville/Koh Rong.

This is the part when Robyn gets ill. Due to the malaria

tablets she experienced almost every symptom you

could get whilst taking them, to name just a few,

fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, nausea,

lack of appetite (for the first time ever, Robyn said no

to food, but Megan was never far away to clean up any

food Robyn couldn't eat). Anyway, she had most symptoms

and so although the first few days in Sihanoukville just

relaxing it wasn't my favourite time. After Sihanoukville we

head to Koh Rong Samloem. After getting the main boat to the island 

we then had to hop on to another small boat to take us to our hostel 

which was on the other side of the island. 

The hostel had its own private beach with hammocks and swings 

in the water which looked very photogenic when you were

on them but the climb up was not easy, Erin's huge bruise

could tell you that. Our three days there were very chilled, 

as you can probably already guess we spent our days soaking up the sun 

(getting very sweaty in the process), cooling off in the sea 

and lounging around in the hammocks. The second night was my 

(Megan speaking) favourite we spent most of it playing 

different card games with three girls that we met, the hostel put on a 

fire show and we went for a late night swim 

with the light up planktons which was magical I 

(Megan) felt like I was a fairy in some mystical land.

That's pretty much all we have from Cambodia, now we are 

just waiting around for our flight to the Philippines.

Hopefully we'll write soon,

lots of love

Megan, Robyn and Erin

xx