We all woke up early as there was a massive thunderstorm this morning which started around 330am. I tried to capture the rain coming down and the lightening but not that successfully.

We had to leave early anyway this morning to catch the 630am ferry back to the mainland. So we stayed up, finished our packing and watched the sunrise. It’s such a beautiful time of day.

We said goodbye to our bungalow and set off for the walk along the beach to the pier, which was a bit of a struggle with our heavy bags.

It was a bit worrying as when we got to the ferry terminal there was nobody there. At around 630am somebody did turn up but they said the ferry would arrive around 7am. Eventually we left about 730am. I slept the whole way on the ferry as I was really tired.

Once we got to Sihanoukville we had some breakfast and then got a taxi to the airport where we had time for a quick drink before boarding our flight.

The flight was only 50 minutes but I slept for most of that too.

In Siem Reap we were met by a driver from the hotel. He was only expecting two of us for some reason so had only come in a tuk tuk. Somehow we managed to fit all four of us plus all our big and small bags into the tuk tuk and we set off for the hotel.

The hotel was down a little back street but actually looked really nice. The staff are lovely and can’t do enough for you.

After a quick look around the room, which was very spacious and clean, we headed off to downtown Siem Reap to go shopping. The markets were fantastic, really colourful and a real mix of food, clothes and souviners.

We all bought a few little bits to take home!

It was then time for a late lunch of pan fried fish with rice and sauces and the best spring rolls to date – they were so fresh.

On the way back to the hotel we got a ride in the cowboy tuk tuk and sang along to a few classics such as sweet child of mine!

At the hotel we had a lovely shower and freshen up before heading out to the circus. This circus is very special as the performers are all former street children that have been educated in performing arts. Any money generated supports the free education and social programs of Phare Ponleu Selpak non-profit school.

The performance was amazing, very entertaining, lots of skill and talent and also really funny.

We were all really impressed with the show.

We were picked up by the hotel tuk tuk driver and headed to pub street. Our first stop was a sky bar which was beautiful but pretty quiet.

We then headed to the main street where we stopped for another th and coke. It was really noisy with loud music from all of the bars, it was difficult to know what to listen too.

We went to another, slightly quite bar called miss Wong for a final drink before heading home.