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Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville May 9th 2012

Vanaf Siem Reap zijn we naar Sihanoukville gegaan, dit ligt aan de kust van Cambodia. Het was weer hoog tijd om het strand te zien! Jaja het leven van een reiziger is zwaar. De eerste twee dagen gelegen aan het strand en nog een keer naar de sportschool geweest. Ook een brommer gehuurd om medicijnen te regelen voor mijn keel want die was ondertussen ontstoken. We wilden graag duiken dus zijn 's avonds naar een duikshop gegaan, we kregen een goede deal omdat we konden verblijven op het eiland dichtbij de duikspot, eiland genoemd Koh Rong. Dus de volgende dag de boot naar Koh Rong, de boottocht duurde twee uur maar dat lag niet aan de afstand maar meer aan de technische staat en snelheid van de boot! Heerlijk gevoel dat je niet weet wat de ... read more
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Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville May 6th 2012

Well its day 5 and im nearly half way through already and that dawned on me today, I already dont want to leave just yet ! I beat the alarm clock this morning ( took it easy on the cocktails last night ) and got up to see if I could get some nice shots of the beach at sunrise. Only problem was it was overcast so that pretty much shat on that idea. As I was up i decided to take a quick walk along it anyway and then returned for some brekkie. Pancakes and fresh fruit sounded perfect and it was followed up with another Cambodian coffee. I had asked about the boat tours to the islands and was told they are all day tours which wouldnt have given me any time to look ... read more
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Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville May 5th 2012

So its Day 4 and I now dont know what Day of the week it is or even what the date is Im just blissfully lost in Cambodia ! Not such an early rise this morning, I met up with Dad and Thida for coffee and breakfast ( Cambodian coffee is delicious by the way ) and talked about my plans while in PP. We then walked to the bus station were Thida got me a coach ticket to Sihanouk and at the khmer price not tourist price haha 5 bucks thats just over 3 quid :O) later and I am on yet another coach for another cross country ride. ( I also bought 40 fags and 4 cold drinks and that cost less than 3 quid and we pay how much back home !!) Now ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville April 19th 2012

Since we last updated you things have been going really well. Our language skills are improving - but not fast enough for our liking :) Happy Birthday to the Airies Lyn Rand, Fiona, Rob Clarke, Nathan Bartlett, Nigel Moore, Maxine Osgood, and Happy 25th Birthday to Lolly! Every week Kari goes to the market & she sits on a plastic chair and gets her hair dry shampood with a 20 minute head massage with a neck massage and followed by washing the hair out for another 10 minutes in the sink. This leaves her hair clean for 4 days compared to when she wahes it herself it is dirty that afternoon. We watched a movie at the cinema called Lost loves which we hope raises the profile of the Genocide in Cambodia, for those of you ... read more
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Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville April 16th 2012

So, since arriving in Sihanoukville we have done mostly drinking and boat tours. We're staying in an Aussie guesthouse, the guys that run it are really nice and make sure were looked after! There are a lot of Western people staying there, mainly Irish, Scottish and Australian. Sounds like a bad joke! It has been lots of fun. We have been on a booze cruise and yesterday we went on a boat tour, snorkeling, forest trek and enjoying the protected beach. For part of the trek we had to go through a river, more of a swamp really. Apparently the water would only be waist height so we would be fine if we held our bags above our head. Im a short arse, so, the water came up to my neck in the shallow parts and ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville April 15th 2012

I make the short trip to Sihanoukville and check into the very pleasant Grand Sihanouk Hotel, just around the corner from the bus stop. Before doing anything around town, I am anxious to see where Ellen and Alex have landed, particularly after the harried separation the previous day. I walk around to a couple of the hostel type places close to the bus stop but can’t find their names in the registers. Looking around at the number of little hostels and cheap hotels, I realise it’s going to be impossible to track them down. So instead I post a couple of emails letting them know where I am with a plan to meet up in 2 or 3 days for the move across Cambodia to Siem Reap. I get no responses from either of them so ... read more
Bridge to Snake Island, Sihanoukville
Beach at Koh Rong island
Vendors at Otres Beach picnic spot

Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville April 11th 2012

Hello yet again. Today I'm writing from an internet café in Sihanoukville on the South coast of Cambodia. On Monday we left Chau Doc and drove around an hour to the VietnamCambodia border. We had to get out of the bus with all our belongings and walk over the border, collecting our visas and having a health check with the Doctor. After another 4 hours we arrived in Sihanoukville. The place was just lovely, we went and had lunch at a restaurant directly on the beach and then explored some of the local shops before heading back to the beach for the evening. We had a few drinks and went swimming in the sea. While we were swimming, a thunderstorm started and it was an absolutely amazing experience to be in the sea with the pouring ... read more
Andy's amazing lunch at the beach
The two birthday girls (hers is 9th April)
Getting the boat in the morning

Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville April 2nd 2012

We leave the beguiling chaos of the city behind us and board a local bus from Phnom Penn to the coast. The bus stations in Cambodia normally just consist of an office on the main road - the buses pull up in their dozens outside, and if you're lucky they'll have an A4 piece of paper stuck in the window with the destination written on so you know which one to get on! We grab some breakfast from one of the nearby stalls selling everything from curries & rice to doughnuts & juice. Other fruit sellers swarm the area, but I scan the crowd for a coffee stand keen for my regular morning fix. Disappointingly there's no coffee being sold here... Woman selling those battery powered fluffy dogs that do somersaults that you had when you ... read more
Busy Bus Station
Otres Beach
Koh Rong

Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville March 27th 2012

Tja die Zeit verfliegt und ich verliere jegliches Gefuehl dafuer waehrend meiner Reise die nun schon ueber ein Jahr anhaelt. Ich bin so sehr mit dem LEBEN selbst beschaeftigt, dass ich erst jetzt realisiere wieviel Zeit seit dem letzten Travelblogeintrag vergangen ist:-) Doch gibt es etwas wichtigeres in Leben als wirklich zu leben??? Hier also ein paar Eindruecke meiner Reise des Lebens der vergangenen Wochen bzw. Montate. Bilder aus Cambodia mit Kata aus Ungarn durch die Anlage von AngkorWat geradelt, dem ersten Besuch im AOEO Waisenhaus in Siam Reap in dem ich spaeter fuer 2 Monate mit Dan aus England Volunteer Arbeit geleistet hab, einem Besuch eines lokalen Handwerker Marktes bei dem wir die Entstehung von Seide durch Seidenraupen beobachten konnten und dem Trip ans Meer nach Sihanoukville von wo aus wir eine Island Hopping Bootstour ... read more
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Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville March 21st 2012

After our time in Siem Reap we took the night bus to Sihanoukville. The bus was half seat and half bed - still a night bus and not very comfortable. The bus took about 12+ hours and it was a very bumpy ride. Usually Asian night busses are always freezing cold and you need ski gear to travel on them but that one was quite hot. Our seats were near the toilet (great) and someone decided to take that smelly fruit on board and eat it (the fruit smells worse than the toilet). We eventually made it and checked into a even hotter guesthouse. As soon as we hit the beach we got surrounded by people trying to sell us everything from sunglasses to hair removal (in the form of threading). Sihanoukville is more like Spain ... read more
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