Templeton Peck

Arrived in Cambodia and hit the ground running. There are hundreds of temples at Angkor in the north of Cambodia but after two daze, we had been up and down, along and back, in and out of enough temples to get the gist. Tomb Raiders we were.

After arriving at the airport (I know we said we weren’t flying again till 2nd Nov, but we did!) we were transferred to our colonial guesthouse by a friendly tuk-tuk driver. It took a while to realise that it was the custom for him to attach himself to his newest customers until his services were no longer required! Thus, we had acquired our own private chauffeur for ₤7 a day. We loved it! Perhaps we should have disciplined him early on the second day though when he slept in, causing us to miss the first rays of light appearing over Angkor Wat. Yes! We got up for a 5am start!! Maybe we should have sacked him when he left us at the side of the road to go and fix a flat tyre. But where’s the fun in that?! And besides, we had the privilege of riding in the slowest tuk-tuk in Cambodia – even lacerations from my whip did not encourage Nuk to prevent a fully laden tuk-tuk of four gleeful Koreans overtake us at a pace.