Blogs from Sihanoukville, South, Cambodia, Asia - page 63

Ok, I ripped off some sort of semi-clever t-shirt. It's an interesting feeling waking up and saying to yourself "I want to go to Cambodia today," and a few hours and a few dollars later arriving. A few days and dollars later Sam and I are sitting in the GST guesthouse in Sihanoukville, 3 crazy hours on a bus south of Phenom Penh. We've arranged to get visas overnighted for Vietnam and thats about it aside from eating and sitting on the beach. We are both fighting a cold- But snorkeling and motorcycling the countryside of Cambodia are in the near future. ... read more

Hi Everyone!! Great to hear your comments and emails following our first blog attempt - we now consider ourselves veterans so here goes... We've been travelling around Cambodia for the last 10 days or so, and the vast differences with Thailand were obvious as soon as we set one foot across the border. Barefooted children pushing wooden carts on wooden wheels around by means of 'taxiservice', grubby toddlers begging for money and food, lots of rubbish everywhere and, most importantly to us at that point in time - the road just stopped. That's right, nothing but muddy, rocky, slippery clay on which we were about to travel 130 kms in about 10 hours. The dancing road, they call it jokingly. Well the joke was on us and boy did we boogie every time we hit a ... read more

You may not know this and we didn't until we came to Asia, but Cambodia has beaches and a coastline. So with recommendations from other travellers and the usual stuff in the guide books we headed to the town of Sihanoukville. Our bus from Phnom Penh was harmless enough. One funny thing that did happen was this. A local guy was sat diagonally to us all dressed in flashy clothes and gold jewellry. With tourists infront. Imagine this! We have only just got on the bus and only just set off (4 hours to go!!) We want to relax!! This guy starts looking and staring at us and the older couple sat infront of us. Then he starts talking to the couple in front, with the usual "where are you from, where have you been rubbish". ... read more

Kim's big trip to the Sea Asia » Cambodia » Sihanoukville By moonwhaJuly 5th 2006Katinka Kim Nielsenjkdshjksdh... read more

well...it could quite possibly be classed as the best weekend of the trip...and certainly one of the best birthdays of my life...i'm not gonna bore you with details of how just minutes after arriving from PP I was on the beach sipping a thick fruit smootie and having a massage...or details of our rooftop 'penthouse' apartment at 'Eden', our beautiful wooden guesthouse situated on 'Serendipity' beach.... nope..i won't talk about the long days of walking along white sands and eating freshly caught lobsters (6 for $1)..or the long nights of drinking 'Mekong' buckets and awful red wine (who were we trying to fool huh?? good wine in Cambodia??) and dancing away to J5 and Cut Chemist(!!) with Hugh from Utopia (a heavenly beach shack bar which was demolished the day after we left to make way ... read more