Le Flamboyant Kep

... places and this let it down.
We talked to some tuktuk drivers to organize a half day tour for tomorrow and treated ourselves and our almost recovered tummies to a full seafood BBQ at the crab market. Maybe not the best first meal after sickness but for just $10 we were given a huge platter of king prawns, whole squid, fish and crab. We sat on a table overlooking the ocean which was lovely until it became dark and Kep's entire population of flies started attack the light ...

Feeling a bit sluggish, we nonetheless woke up at the break of dawn, and broke our fast with another tasty spread of good coffee, croissants and fruit... and headed over to the bus station to travel to the southern coast. Though "snake" wine (rice wine brewed with cobras and scorpions... so you know it's good) may (works every time, 60% of the time) provide homeopathic healing, unlike a north american drug ad, enterprising Cambodians will ...

... in wahre Schlammpisten verwandelt und wir mitten durch – ihr könnt euch sicherlich vorstellen, wie Menschen und Maschinen danach ausgesehen haben!

Am Sonntag geht's nun schon wieder zurück nach Saigon und Volker hat gleich am nächsten Tag ein Vorstellungsgespräch beim deutschen Entwicklungsdienst in Hanoi. Beim Curry-Wurst-Essen (ja, das musste sein!) in einer deutschen Kneipe in NhaTrang haben wir vor rund einem Monat ...

... restaurants” because they all have the same chairs) we often run into people who don’t speak a lick of English. Of course, in my mind that shouldn’t be too big of a deal in a restaurant, where we can act out eating and point to some food. But for some reason (we don’t know why), we sometimes get nothing but blank stares (or we’re ignored) when to try to inquire about food at these places. Maybe ...

... eyeing me like something out of Jurassic Park—but before that could happen, I was back in the cottage with the door locked, huddled underneath the mosquito net, keeping a sharply focused eye on the ceiling. The footsteps eventually faded off and I slept. Bill slept like a baby during all of this.

PHU QUOC 09/15

As the weather was holding, and since we agreed that renting a scooter to explore the island was completely out of the question because of the road conditions ...

... 2-3Km long then lay in the sun for the rest of the afternoon and watched the sun go down - bliss.

Then finished off the night by drinking cheap beer and playing poker with Mei, which I have to admit he one but only just and it was my first time playing.

20th August
Spent a whole day on the beach, we ...

... he had never seen me so angry and directed it towards someone else! We arrived in Kep to a guest house right at the shore (although there wasn't much of a beach and relaxed for the afternoon in hammocks reading books. We intended to leave tomorrow anyway to cross the border into Vietnam. We hired the same tuk tuk to take us to the border. There wasn't much to do in Kep so we had some food and relaxed as we were still a bit achy from the mountain trek.

Arrived Kep late afternoon & booked into Champey Inn on the beach. Asked $35 but offered them $30 as no hot water or internet as advertised. Great location over the road from the beach & short walk to the crab markets. Kep is backed by hills covered with lush jungle. Originally established 1908 as a retreat for French colonists. Fell to ruin during khmer rouge.

Had dinner at the Crab Markets – a group of huts type restaurants on the beach with water ...

Five days have passed since we arrived in Cambodia and it was about time we made our first journey away from the hub, Phnom Penh. Since we will be spending two months here, we thought best to leave Angkor Wat till a much later time. That left us with the option to explore the Cambodian Coastline.

Our chosen route for exploration would be to start at Kep, then move onto Kampot, before finishing in Sihanoukville. Tickets for the bus were extremely easy ...

... strtips of meat, cucumber, onion , carrot, chillis,chilli sauce fish sause and coriander for decoration (DKs had egg on top of that) and all for 13.000VND (about 52p). Delicious! Ill be sad to leave Ive had a realy good time even though ive had a bit of a dodgy tummy. The weather and the food have been amazing!!! :)
Went to the woman selling coconut bananas - they were good and the onto MAYS for ginger tea. We stayed in there for ages we just couldnt be bothered moving ...