We were settled in the $75 per night Almond Hotel, for that money it should be good, and it was. After we had unpacked a few things, we showered and went out for a meal. It hit us right away this was not Vietnam as prices had nearly doubled. We had a nice meal though and decided next day to go to the ex-school and Pol Pot’s torture prison known as S-21. A tuk tuk took us for $2 and waited the three hours for us to go back for a further $2, (everything in Cambodia is in US$ and the [View Full Entry]

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Phnom Penh, Camboya, a 6 de abril del 2009. Saludos a todos. Despues de haber visto la version camboyana de ‘’American Idol’’ o ‘’La Academia’’, a la cual encontre parecido con el enfadoso ‘’Siempre en Domingo ‘’ de los años 80’s (con microfonotes incluidos), procedo a remitirles mas fotos de este país. Si las pasadas fotos habian sido de maravillas arquitectonicas que el genero humano es capaz de construir, ahora se trata de las bajezas a las que puede llegar: hablamos del genocidio camboyano. [View Full Entry]

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Okay so have managed to add a few pictures the last 3 blogs if you want to click on top left "previous entry"you can see the piccies! But no piccies for this one Im afraid as all the memory cards keep messing up as loads of the computers we use end up having viruses and all sorts on them, so frustrating!! So anyway, back to the blog, so boxing day for us was spent with an early 5 hour bus journey from Sihanoukville to the Capital City of Phnom Penh. Journey was fine, we got dropped off not too far from [View Full Entry]

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So we left kampot last Friday and got the bus down to the coast town of Sihanoukville where we were spending xmas. It was only about 1 hour on the bus and they dropped us right at our guesthouse, so nice and convenient! Since we were spending xmas here we had booked all our accommodation up in advance as we didnt want to get stuck with no where or somewhere really grotty, was nice knowing where we were staying for a change and not searching round for ages finding somewhere. We were spending 3 nights in a place called Mick and [View Full Entry]

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So Monday morning we luckily managed to wake up in time albeit a little tired and hungover and got our boat over to the Island we were staying on for 3 nights. When doing some research about Sihanoukville we read someone else's blog where they had stayed in this Jonty's Jungle camp and it sounded amazing. The boat was only about 45 minutes and arriving was pretty weird as we couldn't see anything apart from Jungle, we could see one resort with little bungalows, but we weren't heading for that one we were heading to the bushes! As we got nearer, [View Full Entry]

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So we headed back to the mainland (again) on Thursday to spend xmas there. We had booked xmas eve and xmas day in a bungalow on the beach with a sea view, decided to treat ourselves a bit for xmas :) Checked in to the bungalow and relaxed there for a bit on a little terrace with moon chairs and a hammock over looking the sea. Perfect. Finally ventured out to grab some lunch, a nice stroll along the beach, since we had gone the tide seemed to have lowered a little as there hasn't been any more rain for a [View Full Entry]

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Tirsdag den 22.12.2009 Signe har stadig feber )-: Børnene er trætte af at spise toastbrød, så i stedet får de hvidløgsflutes og frisk ananas. Hvis ikke de får noget at spise dur det slet ikke så, hvidløgsflutes er bedre end ingenting - og toastbrødet er altså også kedeligt. Personalet på guesthouset har opdaget, at vi nok har tænkt os at blive, så de foreslår os at købe vand hos gadesælgeren overfor, i stedet for hos dem, da det er meget billigere der. Jo de er meget flinke. På den måde kan Freja og Julie også få øvet noget engelsk. Ikke fordi [View Full Entry]

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320km It took us 8 hours to get here from Siem Reap with motorbike. We made various stops on the way. After Siem Reap the landscapes where still the same, but we could see that people were wealthier than in the west: houses, bikes, motorbikes and more cars were on the way. Roads were fine and traffic was easy going untill we got in to the capital area. Here people drive like mad outside the city. Nobody gives a fuck about anybody else than themselves. Size matters in the way that what the bike you have to always give road for [View Full Entry]

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Wow Wow Wow!!! There is DEFINALTY a heaven on earth!!! And we've found it!!! Imagine a place where nothing surrounds you but white sand, clear blue sea, stunning coral reef, lots of hammocks and 12 really cute wooden huts all positioned right on the beach...And there, you have Lazy Beach Resort!!! After a 2 hour boat trip from Serendipity Beach in Sihanoukville, we arrived on the Island of Koh Rong Saloem (or Koh Rong Salami ... as Onie calls it), which would be our home for the next 8 nights! On arrival after walking down the resorts rickaty jetty, we found [View Full Entry]

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Merry Christmas (I can't remember Hello in Khmer)! We travelled for 30 hours (Varkala-Cochin-Chennai-Bangalore-Bangkok-Siem Reap) before landing in Siem Reap. It felt like a 36hr race...same same, but different. Instead of biking/running it involved carrying heavy bags, going up escalators and getting searched in security. Siem Reap was amazing! First, we ended up staying in the best guesthouse EVER called the Shadow of Angkor - wow! We had a beautiful room with A/C and the kitchen made the most divine banana pancakes :) We spent two and half days visiting the various temples [View Full Entry]

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