Romancing the locals

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March 2nd 2011

Published: March 8th 2011

Things started in the right foot in Kampot when I alighted from the bus, collected my bag, and hired a moto driver to driver me to my chosen hotel.... all of 200 feet away. Of course I should by now be used to the wiley ways of moto/tuk tuk/taxi drivers. For the uninitiated among you here's a short example of a very probable conversation between new tourist in town and their driver: Driver: Where... Read Full Entry

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AmblingAlongNicely

No sense of direction, an inate inability to read bus timetables (or maps come to think of it) and phermones enough to attract every small winged bitey beastie within a 10 mile radius. Combine this with a 3 month sojurn through SE Asia and what do you get? You get... ME! Woot! See you all when I get back; a more rounded, organised and generally more affable individual (just thought I'd slip that in incase my boss is reading!).... full info

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Herons in flight

beautiful but almost as hard to catch on camera as the dolphins

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Children dancing

A collaberation between the khmer and Quatar children. I was looking forward to this, sat through almost an hour of congratulatory speaches, then saw one musical performace, two dances and then we broke for more speaches. Aaaaargh! I promptly left at that point.

Welcome speach

Poor kids was very nervous and then they didn't bother to switch his microphone on so he had to say it twice.

Dance one

Dance two

I didn't get the best of the dances thanks to the professional photographer who was continually blocking hte view. Shame.

Floating houses

Sunset sand bank

took a sunset cruise and we were offloaded onto this sandbank for sunset. It was strewn with detritus, the water was filthy (we could swim if we chose, oddly none of us did chose), the sun set behind clouds and then the boat got stuck on the sand. Good trip all in :)

Best of the sunset

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