I have discovered the crucial rule for travelling on Asian buses: be prepared to leave half an hour before you're due to but also be prepared to leave 3 hours after you're due to - it works every time. Today, I arrived in Battambang by bus and after 20minutes in my hostel (IT HAS A PIANO!), I was deep in conversation with a lovely Khmer guy trying to sell me a tour. I never am that keen on tours but when I heard how cheap it was, I hopped right on that; anything to spend more time with this cutie patootie. His mate, another worker at the hostel, also joined us and we had such a laugh, starting with eating BBQ'd rats from a stall on the side of the road....Sambath (our tour guide) ensured us that they were super nutritious and clean as they had been caught from the rice paddies as opposed to the city but I decided to wait until the creature was deep in the depths of my stomach before asking any questions regarding pesticides. He had also promised us banana and pumpkin cake as part of the package; I don't know about you but I'm imagining a nice slice of banana bread trickled with icing - don't be fooled. I think the word "cake" must've been confused in translation because as far as I'm concerned, cake is not chewy, nor wet and sticky...We soon arrived at the foot of a small mountain which we climbed up in order to see the temples, killing cave and beautiful viewpoint at the top but no one warned me about the monkeys...1 at Angkor Wat was plenty for me but there were swarms of them here; running through our legs, swinging over our heads, and chucking sticks at our bums...(or maybe that was just my bum). For sunset, we sat in a rooftop bar and observed the phenomenon that is thousands of bats flying out of a cave at once - absolutely incredible site that no photo nor video will ever capture to the full extent. Went out for dinner with a really annoying girl this evening and was put in my place when she quotes "oh wow, we're so similar"....