Sunday, 2 October 2011

Trip to Sihanoukville

Over the Phcum Ben - national holiday over here - most people head back to their homelands so towns shut down - so I went down to the coast and stayed a few days in Sihanoukville - the plan was to head out to an island off the coast and chill out for a few days however just like in the UK on Bank Holidays it decided to rain a lot over the holidays so we decided to stay on the main land and chill out there.
Didn't get up to much apart from reading a few books and having a few ales and great seafood - total chill out.


Cooking squid at the beachside




Yummy baby squid with chilli & lime


Women wonder along the beach with baskets of these and they are so good served with pepper, salt & lime

Non-alcoholic I'll have you know however it was the morning after the night before!!
 We went out for a boat trip to an island to do some snorkeling but as mentioned before it was raining quite a lot over the holiday!!
We got absolutely soaked before we even got in the sea!
Xenia one of the German vols at BSDA

My foot after it decided to fight with some coral!! I have had to go barefoot for the past week!

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Catch me if you can

I think even swimming with a good current behind me I might out swim these river police....

Markets, Stalls & Shops


Dried fish for supper anyone?

Spices and strange dried things!
24Seven one-stop shop Cambodia style

Snack time...


Plastic-fastic - the little kids out here love these


Sugar Palm drink press - very refreshing and a good sugar hit

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Look at those lovely dresses....

Boat Trip - 17th September 2011 - Part 3

As we were heading back in the cooler of the afternoon the villages were coming to life with all the fishermen out with their nets.
We also went past a drying house for tobacco which wasn't in use at the mo due to the flooding - rubber, pepper, rice and tobacco are big crops around this province.

Kampong Cham from the water


Fishing Boat
















Everyone feeling a little tired on the way home...



What you don't see is the fish in his net!!


Tobacco drying houses