Don Bosco Hotel School Sihanoukville

Had another long journey yesterday to this place that a can't pronounce- where we are now. The journey was pretty uneventful- no more eating of deepfried insects! Although we did have a Michael Jackson sing along dvd on- so that was quite amusing! Arrived really tired- we are staying in these adorable little huts- except the toilet doesn't flush and you have to spray with the sprayer after using the loo and you cant put ...

... done by hand. We passed many small settlements of wooden houses raised up on stilts before entering Phnom Penh, a city battling through it's tragic past.<br>I spent 3 nights here and during that time, felt like I saw as much of the place as I needed to. I visited the notorious S-21 prison and site of gruesome torture under the Khmer Rouge in the late 70's and also the 'killing fields' at Choeung Ek. Both grim places to visit. Everybody you talk to about the ...

... Unfortunately for me I was not feeling to well, so in this happy hour I had to pay for bottled water - bad times :(. The boys however made full use of the happy hour, and we danced the night away to western pop and dance music.<br><br>12th August<br>We were meant to go to the National Park today ...

... drank beer, ate thai green curry and lemongrass chicken and sandwiches and baked beans and eggs on toast, pancakes with maple syrup, played mini golf, watched 'Marley and Me' in a private cinema lounge ($10 and a lot of tissues), had our laundry done for the first time since Hiroshima &#8211; then did most of it again ourselves, went to the lovely Sokha Beach Resort and used their pool and lovely ...

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... was to look at these things and think about what horrors went on there. Such a terrible thing, and the people here persevere despite all of it. They are almost always smiling and friendly, very gentle, of course still offering to sell you all manner of things from tuk-tuk rides to pirated copies of books but the way that they do it is so inoffensive and they are rarely pushy. <br><br>We left Phnom Penh this morning by bus (5hrs.) to get to ...

... tuk tuk for $4 to our Guest House, The Reef. Our room is pretty good. We finally have a bed that is not rock hard, a first for Cambodia, we have a/c and no worries about a shower curtain, the shower is in the middle of the bathroom. There is a pool and it looks pretty clean. The restaurant is Mexican, so I may try the food. I could go for some good Mexican food. We checked out the tour office, Utopia, and our options for tomorrow are snorkeling or a boat/Ream National Park ...

... that contained about 6 bungalows all on the hill side about 20m away from the beach, all with beautiful sea views. The place had a really relaxed feel to it and it was only when we met the owner of Cloud 9 that we realized why. He was a typical chilled out ozzie, made even more relaxed by fact that he spent all day smoking weed.....very funny guy. Having not seen the sea or even been for a swim so far in our trip we headed straight for the beach and ...

... and ate breakfast with your feet in the sand, and the clear blue ocean just a few meters away. Slowly throughout the morning others would fill the other chairs, and we all just alternated between reading, eating, swimming, and chatting. Every evening as the sun was setting, there was a seafood BBQ on the beach (fish, squid, and jumbo shrimp). Another wonderful thing about Sihanoukville is that you never have to wear shoes because everything is on the beach. The ...

... bikes and slowly road off, crazy or what! At our next garage we needed a new innertube so all in all it had cost us more than it cost us to hire the bike in punctures/tubes!!! Plus we had missed the sunset at the Jazz Bar (although I expect a slobbering dog would have greeted us again!) so the day ended quite wearily but was still FAB as our last in Cambodia......<br><br> <br><br>