Stuck in Siem Reap

Our last day in Vientiane was very relaxing, we saw a couple of temples in the morning, resigned ourselves to being soaked all day and ate a lot. Poor Andrea had a pretty rough evening; first the electricity went off in our room (only our room, not the whole hotel) leaving her standing under a cold shower in the dark and then her long looked forward to pizza just did not arrive, causing her to go slightly insane and do a pizza dance. The poor waiters were quite worried about us!

Andrea and I took the very wise choice of flying from Laos to Cambodia, serious luxury and we were quite smug at the thought of not having to take a 3 day bus ride to get here! We arrived at the airport 2 hours before to find we were the 1st people there (including the staff) and everything was closed (it was 4.30 in the morning, damn, we could have had 1/2 an hour lie in!), quite a bizarre experience. The plane ride was smooth and no mishaps though (we were a bit nervous about flying 'Laos Airlines') and we got 2 meals!

Unfortunately since arriving at Siem Reap both Andrea and I have been hit with rather bad stomachs, which means that our day of hard core Angkor Wat sightseeing today didn't quite get off the ground and Andrea is still in bed at 3.00. I am a bit gutted as Cambodian food is amazing and I'm just not hungry! The upside is we have a TV in our room and they showed the Sound of Music yesterday! So we are spending an extra day here hoping that tomorrow we will be well enough to brave the heat and crowds of Angkor. The downside of this means we have to cut off a day on our paradise island in the south of Vietnam at the end, boo. Let's hope they show Mary Poppins this afternoon.