Day 3 Siem Reep

Early rise this morning so that we would be ready for our seven hour journey to the Cambodia boarder.

We crossed the boarder by foot and it was like stepping in to another world. There was an obvious divide of wealth.

In the evening we went by tuk tuk to a local village where a family gave us a tour and cooked a traditional Khmer meal for us. We tried rice wine, Cambodia beer, chicken amok, chicken with ginger, pork and noodles, vegetable and coconut curry and a water apple. All of which were delicious.

 

After dinner the local children wanted to practice their English on us. They were all very good at speaking, they explained that learning English was very important as it will help them to get a better job in the future. Many of them wanted to be teachers.

Day 2 Bangkok

Our first full day in Thailand!

We got up early and headed for the Chatuchak market, a short metro ride away.

This is quite possibly the biggest market I have ever seen! It had lots of interesting foods, household goods, clothes & jewellery etc. However there were some quite disturbing sights such as small dogs, rabbits & birds caged up in the scorching heat with no water.

We were shattered after walking around in the heat so decided to head back and sleep, again, so we were fresh to meet our tour group that evening.

We had some quick introductions and headed out for dinner.

A few of the group stayed out after dinner to get better aquainted. Little did I know that we would end up partaking in a THAI TUCKA CHALLENGE!! Much like a bush tucka challenge on I'm a Celebrity get me out of here, we ate deep fried CRICKETS AND COCKROACHES!! Crickets were quite tatsy, on the othetr hand, cockroaches taste like how petshops smell... I had to spit mine out!

I would advise never to eat a cockroach.

Much love, wish you were here... Alicia xoxo

Day 1 London to Bangkok

Hi all, hope you're well and not missing me too much!

I made it to Thailand, absolutely exhausted, I thought I would tell you a little about the journey.

The day started well, I made it to Hethrow in good time. However the winds had delayed our plane by an hour. This turned out to be the best thing ever because Katie's plane from Scotland had also been delayed an hour.

Me and Katie met in departures and did our last minute shopping. Our flight wasn't boarding for another two hours so we had plenty of time to relax.

We flew with SriLankan Airlines, I kept Katie entertained with Sudoku, which she loved of course. To our frustration we still haven't managed to complete one!

The entire journey to Bangkok took 14 hours, much chatting and a sick bag. Hopefully by the end of this trip I will be immune to the side effects of public transport, blurgh!!

We arrived at the hotel around 2pm local time only to find that we weren't booked on the tour for that day. At first we were outraged, how could our travel agent have got it wrong?

In true Katie and Alicia style (we've found) we turned it to our advantage and booked to stay there an extra night, for the bargain price of $20 each. We slept for a LONG time.

We awoke in the evening in time for some dinner. To get to the restaurants we had to cross a busy road, the traffic here is crazy, we were worried we would end up as road kill so we took the long way round. Sensible I'm sure you'd agree.

Dinner was spectacular, we both had a Thai green curry, it was the best I've everrrrrrr tasted, especially because it was so cheap! Dinner and drink cost around $2 for both me a Katie!!

After dinner we opted for an early night so we could be fresh for out adventures the next day.

Much love, wish you were here!! Alicia xoxo