Tuesday 11 September 2007. Day 22. La Vila Loti, Siem Reap

Hotel has no internet (its down), TV, or restaurant. Plenty of wildlife though! We usually have to try and avoid the frogs as we come out of the room.

Woke at 7am then slept in until 9am in our king sized mossie tent over the bed. No bites, despite Ieuan insisting on leaving the tent to go to the toilet every hour throughout the night! Breakfast is warn French stick, with a jam of dubious origin. After breakfast, we go into town via the internet shop on highway 6 (we take the super long route due to a miscommunication with the tuk tuk driver!) then get into town and buy $65 worth of postcards of the Angkor temples! Go for lunch at the Grand Café (goats cheese salad / Tom Kha Kai soup – salad good, soup not so and “nowhere near as good as that in Amsterdam”!).

Leave there and do a circuit round the block to review other eating establishments for the evening and saw Dead Fish Tower where they boast that they do not “serve worm, cat or rat”, and the Soup Dragon and New Delhi Indian. Went to the Blue Pumpkin to sit with shoes off on their huge white sofa areas for some tea and ice cream, and started to read our books until Ieuan got bored, so we left there and headed home (stopping to buy some apples of the expensive tourist variety on the way home).

Applied our evil 100% deet solution and sat on the balcony to read. An hour later, still with a layer of greasy undissolved deet sitting on any exposed skin, we decided to go inside and wash it off. This (and the fact that we hadn’t been able to stay at the foreign correspondents club as it was closed!) helped us reach our decision to try and leave Cambodia a couple of days earlier than planned and head back to Singapore for a couple of days of sterile relaxation. Ieuan perks up at the decision to leave early, and we head to the internet place to change our flights and book a Singapore hotel. Go into town afterwards and eat at Indian Kama Sutra which was really nice – delicious veggie thali and Kandia chicken. Find our waiting tuk tuk driver and head home.