Cambodia - Just 1 in a million . . .

 Well hello everyone!!

Hope you are all well? I know it has been a week but i have been majorly busy sorry!

I last left you just as we arrived in Sihanoukville . . . things have only got better since my amigos! =D

Sihanoukville is like peace on earth, it is soo tranquil and not very touristic (yet - this is all due to change as there are at least 4 or 5 large hotels being built) The accomodation we stayed at in Monkey Republic was nice. We had our own bamboo bungalow in the middle of a little Banana tree forest, so pretty all lit up at night by fairylights. We were a 5minute walk from a beach called Serendipity, which is a lovely beach but you get rather harasssed by ladies trying to give massages and children selling braclets etc. But thats the price you pay for witnessing the most magnificent views i guess!?

Otres Beach from the rocks

We bumped into a group of girls who we had previously met in Siem Reap and they told us that they had been to a beach, about 10mins away by tuktuk that was worth it. So next day we headed to the beach they recommended, this was called Otres beach. I kid you not people we pulled up in our tuk tuk in this little forest area and were slightly confused. The driver told us to go down these steps next to the rocks and as we did we were literally gob smacked. For miles infront of us was the most amazing, white sands and turqouise blue seas, it was literally like walking into the front of a post card. There was a small handful of people spread out across the beach. So we picked our spot and enjoyed the peace and tranquility. It was like there was no one else there. Soooo nice!

Any hooo, going back to Serendipity, one side of the beach is lined with little bamboo cafes/restaurants and bars. We were told to go down there in the evening and try a bbq on the beach so we did as we were told and we were not disappointed. For $3 each we had the most delicious BBQ, you can have any choice of chicken, pork, snapper fish, lobster (the list is endless) with chips or rice, a massive salad and homemade garlic bread. It was sooo yummy and all for like 2 quiud, even better! haha!

UV Party @ JJ's

We explored the night life in Sihanoukville too, it's definatley a place to party. One place we really loved was called JJ'S playground, a bar on the beach. They mirrored Thailand's famous Full Moon Party on 23rd September, it was a great warmup for the real thing next month! I'm still finding UV paint all over my stuff now! The 2 guys and their stuff (3 guys from Texas who were a right laugh) who run the place are all great and we had more than one night dancing the night away there and on the beach.

First experience on a sleeper bus!

All in all we spent 5 nights and 6 days in Sihanoukville, it was relaxing and nice to just explore the place. So we borded our bus at 8pm on Sunday 26th September and we met a new group of people heading on the same route as us. Jenna from New Zealand and Beni & Cecil from Germany. It was quite exciting knowing that I was going to sleep in one country and would wake in another . . . .  . But Cambodia would be greatly missed and has set a high standard!!!