Update- Day three

We have arrived in Kratie after a day of many contrasts: a lovely cycle starting at 0730 through the town of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, a transfer to the boarder crossing Xa Mat, an exemplary demonstrating of boarder bureaucracy, and then the shock of our first taste of Cambodia.

Shock, at the lack of irrigation, the massively potholed roads, the dramatic (!) driving of our driver, the litter and obvious poverty, and a tasty lunch in a local restaurant which had us wondering if this would be the moment to crack open the Immodium.

However dolphin watching on the Mekong as the sun set calmed our nerves. And now we are about to head off to dinner from the Santeheap Hotel Kratie which is tonight's berth...