After a VERY long and bumpy bus journey from Phomn Penh we arrived at the beautiful beach of Sihanoukville! First stop was to get some washing done - 50cents for 2 kilos - gotta love the locals in Cambodia!
By this point we were itching to get on the beach so literally ran the 500 metres it took to get there! And we weren't disappointed. It was clean, white sand with lovely blue sea bordered with lots of bars and restaurants. Perfect! We spent the afternoon relaxing on the beach and then went back to get ready for our "big night out!" So basically back to the beach.
We had some AMAZING freshly caught and barbecued seafood with baked potato, salad and garlic bread all for $4 each (which is about £2.50!!) Then we cracked on with the drinking! Another $4 gets you a "vodka bucket" - literally a bucket full of vodka and pineapple! Needless to say we only had 5 of these during the night!
We carried on this way for the rest of the night, partying and dancing and having the best time with our lovely group. Drunk as we were when it started to rain we decided to strip off and jump in the sea at 1am - I had obviously forgotten about all the jellyfish! Rolling around in the dark with everyone laughing hysterically was clearly the best part of the night!
By this point Oliver was rather drunk and asked to go back to the hotel which i kindly obliged (because I was completely drunk as well!), although not before jumping fully clothed into our hotel pool and dripping all the way up to the room!
The next morning hangovers kicking in we got on a boat trip for the day.
We did some snorkelling - only a little bit as I had a little freak out about being in the middle of the sea - and continued on to our deserted beach where we spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and sunbathing or in Oliver, Amy and Ryan's case playing water volleyball, making a cricket set and building sand castles. The beach was pure paradise as we were the only ones there.
Playing cricket!
What would we do without each other!!!
After a bumpy ride back to shore we set of to have a traditional "Khmer" massage at a local beauty salon. It was a brilliant massage but was pretty much the same as a Swedish massage (incase anyone at Lavender and Stone were wondering!) the only difference was it cost us $4 each!! Cheap, cheap, cheap!
We spent the last evening in Sihanoukville at the beach bar from the night before (they were very friendly at Angkor Bar!) having a group meal and again laughing and joking but NO drinking even though the locals were trying to ply us with $4 vodka buckets again!
We LOVED Sihanoukville and being at the beach especially with the amazing new friends we have made from this group and were very sad to leave! But on the other hand very excited to explore Vietnam!
Next stop Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam and a whole lot of army stuff!!
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