Siem Reap, Angkor and way too many pictures

Sealed roads all the way to and through Siem Reap. Huge hotels, restaurants, tourist-only souvenir markets, neon lights and bars. The difference between the pot-holed dirt roads and wooden shacks of ten years ago was shocking, even if I had read about it prior.

Bangkok and Ayutthaya

A long, uncomfortable, overnight train ride got us from Trang to Bangkok, where we promptly got lost looking for the river. Biggest landmark in the city, but the winding little streets of Bangkok's chinatown present a pretty solid wall of buildings between a traveller on foot and the riverbank. Once you find a pier though, the ferry service is easily the nicest way to get around. Cheap, refreshing and efficient.