Chan Sovannkiri Guesthouse Sihanoukville

... other part of town where the main beech was,the beech is amazing. warm bath water and golden sands just what we look for ahhhhhhhh paradise. The town that we moved to is backpackers heaven which bars are sat all along the beach so you would never get thirsty.
There are also resturants that are there too, so we ate one night, candle lit with the waves crashing inn really romantic........

... attach to some freight traffic, inside these carriages some families have made their homes.

Meanwhile back on the beach there is quite an active music scene each night, I ended up at a shack which seemed to host a combination of locals, blending with ex pats from Manchester, and a DJ reviving hits from the 70's with classic rock. Consequently I did not get back to my hotel until 3am very wet from the walk home.

... by taking advantage of the cheap beer and pretty good nightlife. For the next 4 days. Well it was only 33p a pint!

Despite the weather, It wasn't all doom and gloom. I took a visit to a nearby national park and had a pretty cool boat ride through the Mangrove Swamps. The Ranger was a guy called Ganga or something like that and after chatting for a while, I learnt that he had set up 2 schools in the region off his own back, without government or outside ...

... walking away, shocker, the price drops and we finally catch one for 2USD between us. After seeing two guesthouses we settle for GST that has rooms in bunglowish buildings for 5USD, same price as in Phnom Penh but with a lot more room! After this we're nackered and have some food at the guesthouse (which was not great to be honest..first time in South East Asia!) and have a quiet night.
The day after we decide to have a beach day and we park ...

... to our bungalow. Sitting on the balcony, (which by the way, had and AMAZING view), we decided that Sihanoukville was going to be short lived.

We canceled our two remaining evenings, found a place in Phnom Penh with a PRIVATE pool, and headed out on the first bus the next morning. So, our stay in Sihanoukville was brief - though we loved getting back to the ocean and beach bummin it - it simply did not turn out to be the relaxing experience we had hoped for!

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... Also a couple of women with babies that carry them from bar to bar and stand outside staring at you with big sad pleading eyes and a bucket to collect handouts. Annnd the children. Oh, the children are brutal. They aren't beggars but they sell homemade bracelets and will just not give up until you've bought one, or promised to buy one the day afterwards (they *will* find you). Oli and I were suckered into buying a bracelet each.

We've had a lot of fun though. Phil is a ...

... be shown around someone's place of work and be given free beer to do it. It transpires that they don't let members of the public just wander around the factory at all. If the guards English had been up to it he'd no doubt have said "Does this look like the Guinness brewery to you?" And it most certainly did not. Next time; a move to the South briefly then the North of Cambodia and some sight-seeing. Including the second best Wonder of the World... Until then! Lots of Love, Dan. x.

... beach. The sea was really strange that day - usually Serendipity beach had a calm ocean but for some reason the waves started to get huge; like 6-10 ft high! Good surf! Pete was praying for a board to turn up. Was a good laugh swimming out a little bit though and fighting through the waves.
We did see a character that we'd seen a few days previously on the beach - a middle aged bloke who had headphones in, and was dancing around my the shore like a madman! Not sure what he was ...

Sihanoukville must be the largest port city in Cambodia. Once we'd had breakfast in the restaurant, we waited to move into two separate single rooms that took some time to get ready. Once done, I was dismayed to find the light didn't work. Some hotel workers dutifully came around and fixed the problem. It wasn't that a new striplight was needed, but the wiring needed sprucing up - if that's the correct terminology.
We hired a couple of scooters from the hotel ...