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  Sihanoukville, Cambodia
Saturday, December 11, 2004

After recent experiences our bus journey from Phnom Penh down to Sihanaukville was a complete and absolute breeze, and with no hassle at all had found ourselves a wicked little guesthouse down on Occhetual beach for $8 a night. The beach here is about 4 miles with glorious white sand and a beautiful, tranquil, blue sea. As you can probably guess a large amount of chilling has been going on. Every day on the beach the same kids ask us to buy sarongs, jewelry, have massage, manicure, crisps, fruit etc and it takes around 5 minutes to explain that we really don't want any. However, there is a sweet little girl who seems to have taken a shine to me called Mei and every time she sees us on the beach comes running up and giving me a cuddle (or is this just a ploy to make me buy her crisps?). There is also the coolest kid around called Dor who has christened me "Mr No Hair" who has thrashed me at Tic Tac Toe (noughts and crosses for us Brits)in return for me buying some of his jewelry.

After spending the days lazing around, in the evenings you are treated to some gorgeous sunsets and more chilling out on the beach drinking and smoking cones

Chivas Shack

. Originally Liz and I had planned to shape up here and try to lay off the booze a bit, get up early in the morning for a run on the beach and try to eat a bit healthier. As we have spent most of our time here with Dave and Claire it has proved somewhat harder than we were expecting and have only managed to eat slightly healthier. Mind you they left yesterday and I managed to go the whole day without booze, cones and did some exercise so things might be looking up.

One evening we went to a restaurant called Snake House where they have a collection of Cambodia's snakes. Not any old collection though, most are in glass tanks surrounding the dining tables and some are actually in the dining tables themselves so when you are eating you have got snakes peering up at you.
We have spent most of the evenings at Chiva's Shack where we get served by Kiro a lad of about 10 who seems to be running the whole place, and we are never short of drinks or food. A healthy tip seems to fly his way every night.

We are going back to Phnom Penh tomorrow to spend 2 or 3 days working in an orphanage before meeting El Punji in Bangkok.

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Dor	Mei at Sunset	Occheuteal Beach	Occheuteal Beach 2
Rich, Dor, Mai

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