Mohachai Sihanoukville

Hi once again,<br>Our travel update - yesterday (Friday) morning we caught a local bus to take us to the Vietnam / Cambodia border crossing at Ha Tien. Local buses left hourly so no problem here - obviously a popular route. However, the drop off point turned out to be not in a town but at a service station in the middle of nowhere. We were met by two locals on small motor bikes and told that the only way to the next town was by motor bike!!!. The ...

... are so corrupt n Cambodia you have to bribe them <br>to let you through).<br> <br>We paid for a private taxi from the border to Sihanoukville (which is a <br>seaside town) which was expensive but it was either that or ride on the back of <br>a bike &gt;100km (i dont think so!!).<br> <br>Just had some good food, got accomodation for $7 a night which is good and ...

... join us for the evening. Though there was a mosquito net covering our bed, we made it a point to go down to the small market to pick up a few insect repellent discs. Using my McGeyvor skills, I looked for small items around the bungalow, like the toilet paper handle in the bathroom, to set up the incense discs. Thankfully, that evening, Asia and I slept peacefully in our mosquito-free fort. <br><br>Unfortunately, though we were able to barricade ourselves ...

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... to chill out in for a few days. but the beach was a lot more developed than we had hoped, basically filled with beachfront bars and restaurants belting out music and light, and the water was less than appealing, with lots of garbage washing up. we did find quite a nice place near the end of the beach, but our quest would have to continue. the next morning, gordon headed off to the Vietnamese embassy with our visa application forms, while i continued the quest ...

... on to another spot down the street and I stayed put. I caught up on 2 blogs and Bill made another copy of all of our photos (he has discovered 4 days later that now all of the memory cards have been corrupted and we don't know how to fix it...) Ironically, the guy there told him that a virus had been put on our one card from the place in Phnom Penh. We met up and went back to the room for a snack and some reading. We tried some Saki that we had bought from the mini ...

... bend it properly. But yeah yeah "Shut up Curly! It's hardly a broken arm!" But its my first break so I shall take as much pity as possible thank-you-very-much!<br><br>*********** *********************ADDITION********** ********************<br>One last weird thing happened on the last night. Pete had been chatting to two deaf Cambodian girls on the beach the night before (whilst I was in bed ready for the infamous "early morning" bus). We met them the last night in Utopia where one ...

... although we quickly moved to Mick &amp; Craig;s next door. Although the place's atmosphere wasn't quite as good, the accomodation for the same price was much better. No manually flushing Western toilets here!!!!! The beaches were nice although Serendipity was a little bit dirtier than expected. Otres was definitely my favourite and worth the 10min moto drive. Not sure about staying ...

... to the restaurant supervisor, a guy on a motorbike had strolled in and taken it.<br>'No worries,' the supervisor confirmed. 'I'll call him back, but it'll cost you five dollars.'<br>A small price to pay with a coveted memorabilia of captions.<br>He taunted me with jibes befitting the stigma of a rich western tourist.<br>'How much was it? Three hundred, four hundred dollar?'<br>'Neither. I spent a few thousand Chinese RMB about four years ago.' It's an old ...

... tuk tuk experience we were pretty dubious about going on one but what the hell eh! The usual scam happened, we say take us to 'this hotel' and we miracously end up at another 'half the price, cheap for you!' hotel, to which we got off and walked whilst our moto drivers hounded us alongside!! We made it down to Serendipity beach which was pretty busy with tourists but it still ...