Sihanoukville, Cambodia Travel Blogs

End of Nam ...& a good start to an amazing country
Nov 30, 2008 (64 photos)

... banter with the locals... the kids are fun to mess around with, its just a bloody lovely and amazing place..... i recommend Cambodia to everyone... and i formed that opinion after taking 10 steps from he bus.... i still have the same opinion 1 week later ...

Cambodia "The Wild East"
Aug 18, 2008 (9 photos)

Sihanoukville or snooky as it is affectionately known as amongst the expat community is a small beach town on the southern coast of Cambodia. Anything goes here and you can see why Cambodia is sometimes referred to as the wild east. You get skunk and ...

Beachin' it
Feb 17, 2005 (9 photos)

... to lie low for awhile. I popped a couple of anti-diarrhea tablets and we took off on the bus to Sihanoukville on the south coast of Cambodia. After all our purchases in Vietnam (clothes and souvenirs) we are loaded down with two extra bags and wouldn't ...

FaT dOg Cambodia
Mar 24, 2008 (37 photos)

... of 'get wasted, the bar money goes to charity' took hold and 60 people danced to probably the first minimal ever heard in Cambodia. Before the party I had spent 3days trying to find stuff i could play that wasn't minimal. But after an hour of the night I ...

The Costa Del Cambodia
May 1, 2006 (50 photos)

And now, Cambodia from Eva's perspective: Part I, Sihanoukville. "$1 for moto ride, $2 for two" "$1 !!!!! for going 2 km.......... How much we paid for water? " "Gasoline is very ebansiv!" "Too Fa to wak!" There are too many reasons that they ...

The Killing Fields
May 16, 2004 (6 photos)

... loving people they are. There are only some signs today that are reminders. The fact that doctors were killed and today Cambodia still has a very poor healthcare system (put it this way our insurance states evacuation to Bangkok is covered should we fall ...

Sunny, Smoky Sihanoukville
Feb 12, 2005 (6 photos)

... New Year, and found ourselves paying double for a room. Turns out that those who can afford to leave Phnom Penh (the capital) for Sihanoukville this time of year. No room at the inn for us poor travellers, unless we pay (shock, horror) U$10 a night. We ...

Beaches and Waterfalls
Jan 23, 2006 (14 photos)

... re gonna fall over every few seconds. we spent the end of the day watching a beutiful sunset from the hill that overlooks Sihanoukville. unfortunatly that night, there was some sad news from home. lots of love peter. all in all times are good, but money ...

Sihanoukville and Koh Russet
Jan 2, 2007 (8 photos)

... we haven't actually had the chance to do any real beach time.  This is our first real chance.  Sihanouk ville is Cambodia's only real port city.  A port city isn't usually the place to find good beaches, but Sihanouk ville is very spread ...

The Cambodian Coast
Mar 8, 2008 (44 photos)

... like his donuts but it went straight over her head. Shit joke or that damn language barrier? We liked Sihanoukville so I decided to do my Scuba diving certification here instead of Thailand. Kerry has an enormous phobia of the open ...

Walked the whole of Sihanoukville - Beer is back!!
Jul 28, 2008 (8 photos)

I awoke with some strange feelings this morning after an alcohol free day. There was no banging headache. No mouth with a taste like a badger has done a number two in it. No red hot poker pain behind the eyes. No kebab meat stuck to the side of my face ...

All day on the beach!!!
Jul 29, 2008 (22 photos)

This morning we got up and it was scorching hot and sunny! There was only one thing for it - hit the beach for the day! A full day of sand & sea was great for a change. We even had chicken fajitas by the beach for lunch. So a pretty dull day for the ...

Easy Rider Part 1
Jan 27, 2008 (10 photos)

... part for the environment.  Don't use your lights even at night. So from Phnom Penh, I rode down to Cambodia's beach town, Sihanoukville.  It's not the best beach in the world but it's nice enough. The best exploring, however, ...

Still Here
Sep 22, 2006 (1 photos)

With only having just gone to bed getting up to get the bus for the start of a 10 hour journey to Siem Reap just did not happen this morning, or at least not for Mark and I who decided to stay on while Zian and Shirly, obviously with greater will power ...

Chapter 41: Welcome to the rainy season.
Jun 15, 2004 (20 photos)

... pacing around watching the snakes and taking pictures, and I came back a few days later for another look. The days in Sihanoukville blurred together because the rain limited our activities and I quickly fell into a daily routine: wake up late, meet for ...

Love - Lara and Indy
Dec 20, 2003 (22 photos)

... the beach. Besides, we needed to recoup after all of our tomb raiding. So, here we sit on the white sand beaches of Sihanoukville. It's a tough life. We spend our days swimming in the ocean, sitting on the beach, and eating - beach vendors bring fresh ...

Day 77 - 83
Dec 6, 2006 (10 photos)

Weds 29th November I left the guesthouse and headed down to the bus station in Phnom Penh. I had bought a ticket to Sihanoukville - Cambodia's sea-side town so that I could go and chill out for a few days. It was a four hour bus ride and on the 20 ...

Phnom Penh to Sihanouk Ville
Sep 29, 2007 (18 photos)

Our trip consisted of yet another bus journey! Thankfully we had Miriam and Victoria to break up the monotony and prevent the urges to throw things at the driver, other passengers etc... After five joy filled hours we arrived in Sihanouk Ville (Snookie, ...

Sunny Sihanoukville
Dec 11, 2004 (6 photos)

... so things might be looking up. One evening we went to a restaurant called Snake House where they have a collection of Cambodia's snakes. Not any old collection though, most are in glass tanks surrounding the dining tables and some are actually in the ...

Sun, sea, sand and drunken late night swimming
Oct 31, 2006 (3 photos)

After Siem Reap I headed back to Phnom Penh in order to get a visa for Laos and then head North, however the embassy was closed so I had to kill a few days, so I decided to hit a beach. Didn't get up to much, snorkelling trip to Bamboo island and lots of ...

DEUTSCH - Kambotscha
Aug 19, 2008 (25 photos)

... 21"was jetzt Museum ist, wurde ein Fim gezeigt der feuchte Augen und einen Klos im Hals hinterlies. Momentan sind wir in "Sihanoukville", einem kleinen Ort am Meer. Es ist herrlich nach 8 Wochen das Wasser und den Strand wieder zu sehen. Wir entspannen ...

HAPPY 50th DAD!
Jan 17, 2006 (3 photos)

... pit-stop. Happy 50th b-day Dad, BOTH WISH WE COULD BE THERE. drink one for me. yesterday we took the long bus down to Sihanoukville in the south of the country, which is a small port town, created in the 1950's. the bus ride down (just our luck), was ...

Sihanoukville
Dec 11, 2005 (3 photos)

Sihanoukville is Cambodia's future hope for gaining some of the beach destination tourism away from Thailand. A pretty little spot with far too many motorbike drivers wanting to take us somewhere - anywhere! The air reverberates with "want moto" "where you ...

The Serendipity of Motorbikes and Beaches
Mar 9, 2006 (5 photos)

... . I read in my travel book about a place they described as "blissed out nothingness" and while that isn't exactly Sihanoukville, that's how I felt at that moment. So glad to have happened upon our little piece of bliss, we decided that returning the next ...

I Have Found the Beach
Aug 13, 2004 (1 photos)

... will ever be seen again. Only one other westerner on the bus, and manage to sleep a little of the journey. Reach Sihanoukville, which is a vert stretched out place, so just choose one of the beaches and catch a motobike taxi - made a cardinal error ...

And then it poured...
May 19, 2006

$5 exit fee Moto mafia RAIN

Beach Time & Soberness in Sihanoukville
Jul 27, 2008 (17 photos)

... , once again, warp my fragile little mind. Over dinner, Lorna and I started having serious (sober) conversations about Cambodia's political views and also started to discuss our travel budget!! This made me think back to wonderful drunken conversations ...

Sour Kiwi
Jul 20, 2005

A Toast-ie
Sep 21, 2006 (7 photos)

This morning we headed in the opposite direction from the beach (don't worry we soon headed back) to have a look around the town. That took all of about 5 mins with nothing really note worthy to see with the market being not much more than a handful ...

Journey to Sihanoukville, rain & internet
Jul 26, 2008 (6 photos)

We arrived into Sihanoukvville at about lunchtime. We decided to go for a place right on the beach at Serendipity Beach. The place was called Tranquillity Guesthouse and we literally had to walk 10 paces from our room to the bar, and 10 more paces and we ...