Rory's Pub and Guest House
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Cambodia (second time lucky)
We spent a few more days on the island, relaxing in the hammock, sitting on the beach, snorkelling round the stunning offshore reef. The fish and coral colours were amazing, including the biggest moray eel I've ever seen, and a coral full of flame angel eggs, the parents keeping watch above them! Our final snorkel was brought to a slightly painful …
'Happy' Days
We reached Phnom Penh, which was much less busy compared to Saigon, and so we were relieved. They had good food - khmer curry, happy pizza (Helen - don't ask! If you need to ask then you probably shouldn't know), noodle soups (Helen - known as Pho (Fo) which was really tasty) and bacon sandwiches - so we had these on several occasions! We stayed at …
Depressing and horrific history, yet important...
Meang, the owner of the guesthouse had organised our bus tickets to get to Phnom Penh. We were picked up at the guesthouse just before 9am in a minibus which then brought us to the big bus. Getting on the big bus, we were thinking that the bus was quite a lot older than we'd been used to so far here in South East Asia. This turned out to be the …
Morbid!!
So here we are on our way to the Cambodian border, we had to get up really early to catch this bus and it was late as well so were all a little grumpy. The driver said he would sort out our visa but he had tried overcharging us so we all asked for our money back and we would do it ourselves, not sure if it was the right thing to do as they were in …
A Phnom-enal Time!
Friday, July 8
Off to Cambodia today! We got up nice and early to pack up our things and check out of our hostel. We made sure to leave ourselves plenty of time so that we could change all of our Vietnamese dong into American dollars. In Cambodia, they have local currency (riel) but prices are almost always listed in American dollars and …