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We had enjoyed a fantastic day at Angkor Wat, but we knew that the fun could not last. With our last full day in Siem Reap we would need to arrange a few details for steps in our trip later down the line. Due to China wanting an exact itinerary of where and when we would be in the country we needed to book hotels and trains in order to apply for the visa when we got to Phnom Penh. But we also needed to work out the entire rest of our route so that we knew where we could get to with our remaining time – could we or couldn’t we make it to Japan, South Korea or Tibet? It turns out that no, we can’t. Well, we could but it would be a big stretch.

So with our schedule calculated and hotels booked for China (we hadn’t even done Vietnam yet!) there wasn’t much left of the day. We had managed to sneak out for lunch at a nearby eatery, which was where we finalised our details after we had absorbed the proposed route. It felt good to have it all booked and knowing where we were going and when, so maybe China have got it right? Or maybe not. We still needed to fill in the Chinese visa form, and that looked like it would take a while.

After dinner we headed back into the Night Market for one more night of bartering and shopping, and my new technique of putting a small amount of bills in my wallet and claiming that’s all I had as we were leaving the country the next day seemed to work a treat. We managed to make it back in time to watch most of the Liverpool game on the telly too, which was a nice little bonus for the day. After that we packed up and got ready for leaving for the capital city in the morning.