Chill at Sihanoukville

This place is the beach resort of Cambodia, where the sea front i a packed with sun lounges in front of restaurants and bars. The beach is not too big so there's limited space after the sun lounges taking their spaces. We got here in the mid afternoon from Pnom Penh and stayed at a GST guesthouse, which had bungalows for $5. Although we found this out a few weeks after we were here, but GST got done because a 72 year old man was having sex with a 14 yr old girl in one of the rooms and this was all over CNN. Funnily enough, they have a notice clearly stating that sex with girls under the age of 16 is prohibited-tut tut.

There really wasn't much to do for us apart from sunbathe, play cards, read a book or listen to music. It does have a drinking vibe around this place but we're not really into that so we just chilled. There are opportunites to visit the islands but we've visited some in Nha Trang, Vietnam, so we weren't too fussed. I went for a couple of good runs down to the isolated beach, which was nice, especially when we've spent a lot of time in the tourist areas.

Probably the most interesting we did here was update our ipods. They have shops here where you can update your music and videos on your ipod for a $1 an album. It can only work here because they download illegally and therefore make a profit. We left on the 3rd night on a night bus to Siem Reap. Many people have knocked Sihanoukville for it not being much of a backpacker scene but it has a real chilled out vibe so I enjoyed my time there.

Sorry, we forgot to take photos of this place-that's how chilled we were!