Advertisement
Published: January 16th 2009
Edit Blog Post
We arrived to Sihanoukville greeted by scorching heat and a pack of tuk-tuk and moto drivers. We each got a moto to the beach side and found accommodation a stones throw away. Once we got checked in we found a couple of deck chairs by the sea and planted ourselves there. Straight away we were pounced on by women and children offering all sorts of services including fruit, seafood, manicures, nail painting, massage, bracelets... Even an ingenious way of plucking leg hairs by use of something like dental floss. I went for it for $3 a leg. Quite a strange sensation lasting 45 minutes, but had bonny hair free legs afterwards. Everyone here seems to love our white skin, they always say they want skin like mine, and I say I want tanned skin like theirs! One guy even said I look like a million dollar girl. I took taht as a compliment until he said 'White skin means very rich, Cambodian skin means very poor!' Don't really think that theory figures out too well, otherwise I must be flippin loaded!
Our first night here we went for a walk along the beach which is lined with bars and restaurants.
We chose the last one in the line for our sunset beer, which turned out to be the local transexual/ brothel bar. We were greeted by, on first glance, a slender young woman, but on closer inspection the manly face and deep voice was a bit of a giveaway. Nevertheless, we sat down for our sunset beer, and out came the campest Cambodian guy with the tiniest bright blue trunks on. A worker at the bar he greeted passers by with the following - 'Jug of beer $3, my name Jay, love you all night $5!' whilst wiggling his rear at them. Little wonder the bar wasn't that busy! Quite funny to see the passers by reactions for some light entertainment! Later on we saw the lady-boy walk by arm in arm with an old couple of men!
By night the sellers stroll around offering fireworks and bangers. A crowd of boys were setting off bangers much to the disgust of a man sitting close to us. He gave them a bit of a telling off. 10 mins later they threw a banger under his chair setting off lots of colourful, loud bangs and a big puff of smoke.
Needless to say the man did not share our amusement!
Next day we got a tuk-tuk to the neighbouring beach. It was a lot quieter and peaceful, nice not to be pestered by sellers and beggars every 2 mins. We hired a Hobie Cat and Michael took me out sailing for the very first time. Must admit I was a bit of a scardy cat at first but soon got in the swing of things, even managed to turn the boat into the wind, called tacking! Afterwards we walked back to our beach, stopping off at the ladyboy bar for a sunset beer. We were approached by one of the sellers who wouldn't take no for an answer, so we said we'd get a massage tomorrow. She made us a bracelet each as a 'present' but probably also a way to seal the deal. The next day we kept our promise, even though we were asked by countless other ladies. When she did find us she couldn't stop laughing, smiling and hugging us saying she'd been up and down the beach 3 times looking for us and was so happy that she did. Massage on the beach is definately the way to go!
That evening we both started to feel a bit rough, so we went to a bar which sells lemon, honey, hinger and mint shakes, thinking it would make us feel better. About 5 mins later, I had to run out of a shop and spew in the most discreet place I could find (which wasn't very discreet). We quickly made our way back to our hotel when I managed to quite spectacularly projectile vomit on one of the main streets in-front of 2 horrified looking oncoming girls. 2 minutes later Michael started and we were both spewing at the side of the road. We managed to get back to the hotel but the spewing got gradually worse. Unable to keep even water down it kept us up for most of the night. The next day we took it easy, managing to keep down breakfast and dinner. Although we are still feeling a bit rough we have booked the bus for tomorrow to Siem Reap (with a toilet on board just in case) so hopefully that's the spews and shits over with this time!
Oh aye, took lots of lovely photos of us lounging on the beach but the memory card on our camera has packed in and has lost ALL our photos (Never buy cheap fake memory cards when going on the holiday of a lifetime) ... thankfully we have them all backed up apart from Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville so we might just cheat and put some internet photos on!
Advertisement
Tot: 0.112s; Tpl: 0.01s; cc: 7; qc: 45; dbt: 0.0467s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.1mb
Sherine
non-member comment
hello from Inverness (currently 3C)
Sounds like quite an adventure! Although the dental floss leg waxing sounds pretty cool! luv sher -x-x-