Cambodia - Angkor Temples

The border crossing from Thailand to Cambodia at Poipet was pretty painless, despite all the reports of scammers.

We met an Italian couple who we shared a taxi with from Poipet to Siem Reap. 

Firstly I would like to summarise the Cambodian transport system.

Roads - mostly tarmac, some sections of dirt, massive potholes, uneven surface, predominantly drive on the right, but the odd person driving on the left!
Cars - not many have cars, most have 125 cc mopeds.
People carriers - pick up trucks with as my people you can fit in the back.
Van - they don't use vans, instead the majority of goods are transported by moped and massive trailers, a trailer so overloaded a car wouldn't be permitted to tow it in the UK.
Taxi - a moped towing a trailer for four people. Called a remorque.
Bus - never seen anything like it, a minibus full of people, and I mean full, then they have a platform attached to the back with more seating area, or to carry mopeds etc, some had people on the roof too.
Bikes - bikes are also use'd for transporting goods, loaded up to 10 foot tall in some cases.

The main purpose for going to Cambodia was to visit Angkor temples.  We hired bikes the night before from the hotel owners brother.  We got up at 4.30am and got to Angkor Wat for sunrise, pretty epic.  The biggest religious site on earth, a wonder of the world.
We cycled around the site, visiting lots of awesome temples where you can walk around pretty unrestricted. One temple was used in the Indiana Jones and tomb raider films.  We cycled about 20 ish miles in total.

The food in Cambodia was awesome, coconut milk based currys were ace.

We traveled back to Bangkok and met my uni mate Mark for a night out.  We went to 'the largest adult playground on earth' the centre of Thailand's sex tourism industry.  I would like to add we were obviously just going to see what was going on there and not takeing part in any of it!! But it was an eye opening experience, the number of middle aged western blokes with Thai girls was pretty disturbing. And the bar dedicated to ladyboys was interesting, genuinely couldn't tell them apart!

We are in Hanoi, Vietnam now, will update on our Halong bay experience soon.