As the Autumnal weather takes hold and the chill starts to reach the bones once again, it is easy to day dream about backpacking somewhere warm, exotic and ideally, cheap. Beth spent 3 weeks in Cambodia in the early part of 2011, with her friend Claire and a shoestring budget. They wanted to record and share their experience about the travel, accommodation and people they met on route to encourage others to consider independent travel as a cost effective alternative, in these financially austere times. This is part one of a two part series, where you get to travel for free with two twenty something women, living life to the ‘cost effective’ full, getting the most from Cambodia and all it has to offer.