Seaside Hotel Sihanoukville

Well coming to Sihanoukville was by far the best decision we've made in Cambodia. I've enjoyed my time here immensly! We've spent most of our days hanging out on the beach and the majority of our nights enjoying the nightlife. Our weather was fantastic for the first 4 days but has been pretty rainy since. This is the first time where I fully understand the term "Rainy Season" everywhere else we've been has been hot hot hot!

Sihanoukville, Cambodia tlow82

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The last couple of days in Sihanoukville were rEally interesting. Somehow managed to do some teaching at a local English school. A group of people who were staying where I was had come over to teach for a few days as part of their holiday, they found out I was a teacher and before I knew it I was in a tuk tuk heading off to the English school. The school was part of a church and therefore a few of the teachers were ...

... this absolutely stunning beach with a tiny bar and some bungalows scattered about. Stayed in the dorm which was only $3 a night and got to wake up on the beach everyday. Stunning! Had so much fun. Went on a bit of a mission though as had a lot on my mind and managed to spend 6 out of the 7 days drunk (sorry Nan!). And I mean DRUNK. Sambucca at 10am? Check! Bottle gone by 11.30? Check! Beers in the sea? Check! Cherry ...

... 2000 DVD's. We jumped in with a few Europeans and watched wolverine, it was ok though it was an unedited version so you could see wires and stuff when they jumped off buildings. Did a full day cooking course in Cambodian cookery. Some Cambodian lady showed us how to make 4 dishes: deep fried shrimp, beef and fried noodle salad, chicken curry and deep fried banana with ice cream. We got to eat all the food we cooked and it was amazing. we got recipe cards ...

... bothered me to start out with, but on our walk we saw needles just thrown on the beach multiple times. It is just kind of sad because this place could be so nice if it were just cleaned up a little. After our walk we decided that we should probably go ahead and leave sooner than we planned as neither of us feel too comfortable taking our shoes off and going in the water anymore. Anyways we leave the day after tomorrow for Siem Reap and Angkor Wat.

After all the killing we were craving the beach again so we headed south to a small place called Sihanoukville. Very strange name, very strange place. The beach was nice enough, and the bars were fun, but there were lots of drug addled people, guys with huge eyes, the pupil taking up the whole iris, just floating about. We stayed at a place called Utopia, it was cheep but not really cheerful. Our room was right next to the bar with ...

... were standing at tables pleading for scraps. It was very hard to bare and raises a mix of emotions. The next day we went to Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, The Bayon and a few others. These things were amazing! Our tuk tuk driver was the slowest in Cambodia I'm sure and since he wore a helmet which not many others do it made me think we might not be in the best hands. My suspicions were confirmed when we arrived to the taunts and ...

I'm trying to rack my brains and search the Net locating which guesthouse we ended up staying at in Sihanoukville. I know it's near Serendipity Beach which I think is the most popular beach in the area. It's certainly worth beachcombing at. Sorry, can't remember the name of the hotel anymore. Anyway, it's where a tuk driver dropped us off after we were dropped there initially by the minibus. Make your mind up!
The bus picked us up at around 11 a.m once I'd ...

... no avail. She explained to me that I would have to buy another ticket and the cost of the previous ticket that I bought would be refunded back onto my card in 28 days time ! !

This really ****** me off and put me in a bad mood, anyway I was glad that I had reserve money that I could buy another ticket with. I arrived at Phnom Penh airport, the journey time from Bangkok was about one hour. Being a UK National, I needed to have a visa to enter Cambodia. I had done this in advance ...

... into a tiny launch with a relatively powerful engine. All of this rushing (we had two minutes to make it to the other side of the river) made us fertile sources of baksheesh for the various drivers and touts who had converged on us in numbers not experienced since we left India. We were handed from one eager 'fixer' to the next in a kind of high-speed relay and the 100 baht notes fairly flew out of my wallet. But the payoffs paid off and we managed to jump into the barge-like ...