Seabreeze Guesthouse Sihanoukville

... several corner stores selling gasoline in pop or wine bottles. They have them filled up & sitting on a table on the side of the road. I guess a pop bottle full is all a scooter needs.

Today heated up just like the other days did. We were marched through dirty stinky garbage filled areas. Our first stop was at the fishing village. Obviously they have no idea of garbage collection. We walked over garbage and **** all the way through the ...

The reason people go to Sihanouxville is for the beaches! And what lovely beaches they are! We only made it to one of the many beaches (Occheuteal Beach near the backpacker area known as Serendipity Beach) and it was lovely. Clear water and gorgeous golden sands. Unfortunately, there are also loads of locals selling fruit/crisps/bracelets/manicures/etc. It got a bit much in the end…

We stayed in the city centre (about 3km from the beach) in a funky looking hotel with a bar ...

... pretty wrecked from our ordeal but there was more to come. The sealed road became rougher and rougher and what a surprise - our minibus got bogged in a pot hole about one foot deep! The bus was crammed. Almost everyone got out and pushed standing in deep mud to do so. Once out we drove off with the exhaust dragging on the ground for about the next 10kms. A stop off at the driver's house had us transferred into an old Toyota station wagon - all 10 ...

... the price is cheap and the staff are friendly. We did get a bit suspicious that except us, all the other clients seem to be old white men, traveling alone, with fair bit of money. Now far be it from me to judge but is seems like these old guys have made very good "friends"with some stunningly beautiful twenty something Thai girls... No maybe it is that he's her "üncle" or infact they're teaching them English... in their rooms... alone... at 10 pm ...

... night in Cambodia was spent in my room watching Shrek and some dog programmes on National Geographic. Brilliant.

Needless to say it was only a little bug and the next day I managed to get the bus down to the coastal town of Sihanoukville. My brother's advice of 'never leave your room without your electronic items not charged' was fully appreciated on the journey down.One of the Khmer people's favorite forms of entertainment is karaoke and ...

Sihanoukville wird b**eits als das neue Pattaya bzw. das Pattaya von Kambodscha gehandelt. Zum Glueck ist es ab** noch nicht soweit. Es gibt zwar eine Menge Touristen hi**, ab** man findet imm** noch einsame Naturstraende, wo man voellig ungesto**t in die Wellen tauchen kann. Auch die Hotels sind noch relativ billig. Fu** 7 Bucks pro P**son kann man in einem neuen Hotel mit Pool, AC, TV und Fridge einziehen. Leid** ist hi** ab ...

... a-doodle-doing wakes you every morning and they carry on for a good two hours. But this is a small complaint considering the accommodation was only 85p a night and a bottle of whisky 85 pence also. You could live here like a king for next to nothing. The contrast we had when crossing the border over to Cambodia and our first stop Phnom Penh was stark. Phnom Penh is not unlike Bankok in its garish tourism. There were only really two plus points to the place. First is the ...

... we had very little idea of what she was talking about. She DEFINITELY gave me the eye though hahaha. We actually saw them the following day and they blanked us - quite lucky as we had no idea about their names!
Another night we were at another bar (Nap Bar) and played some Austrian guys and German girls at pool. One of the girls was called Eva and her friend I cannot recall, but she was going the next day and didn't stay long. She had a ridiculous pair of Elton John glasses ...

... a hour. One of those freak tropical thunderstorms and heavy downpours detained our departrure, though, something of a delayed reaction. I'd experienced no rain so far on this trip.
Once moving, we strolled around a covered-in market, Johannes bought a new baseball cap, and we ended up having some French quisine at a nearside restaurant. I let Johannes stride ahead while I went slower; I called in at the bookshop once more.
Once the shower abated ...

... the road he road of into the night. I would strongly recommend that you do not walk alone at night, always be in groups. Single females should not catch a taxi bike/ tuk tuk at night, there is a strong chance of you getting robbed.

Sihanoukville has yet to be touched by large scale developments and commercialism. For this reason there is a certain charm a rawness to the place that is quite frankly appealing. I am still undecided as to whether I will go back or not.