Sihanukville:
We met up with 2 girls that Ally travelled through Laos with in Sihanukville. Katie and Lyndsey from Canada.. they are AWESOME! Had a super fun time with them for sure.
Sihanukville is a pretty tourist filled backpacker area in southern Cambodia. There are 2 beaches there, Serendipity Beach and Otres Beach. Serendipity is pretty full of your backpackers who want to party, a lot of Brits on Gap Year, and Otres is a bit more chilled out. I loved Otres, we visited there, but were staying in Serendipity.
On the second day, we decided to hit up the beach. We walked to Serendipity, saw that it was complete shit lol; garbage, beggars, hagglers… so we decided to take a tuk tuk to Otres and check that one out. When we got there, it felt like paradise… we went from shitty Serendipity beach and ended up in clean, white sanded and friendly Otres beach! When we got dropped off there, and immediately a guy came out of his restaurant and invited us to sit on the lounge chairs along the beach in front of his restaurant. It was soo nice.. he didn’t even ask us to buy anything or to give him money. But since he was soo sweet, we definitely bought a few things. :)
At one point we got chatting to this British guy and his gf/wife (I can’t remember which), they were walking a puppy along the beach, and anytime there’s a puppy, there’s definite means to convers. We found out that they just got here a month ago, and 2 weeks ago they bought a boat and were starting this tour of the islands just off of Sihanukville! And guess what!? Since they were just getting it started, they offered us to go the next morning for free!! A free tour! Hell yeah!!! As we were confirming, the guy asked us to not say anything about not
It was soo great! The next morning, we got picked up from our hotel by a complimentary tuk tuk that dropped us off at the meeting place for the tour! They fed us breakfast before we left and lunch on an island we went to! It was soo beautiful.. lots of pretty views, snorkeling, white sand, a little trekking, beaches, and clear blue water!
Later that day, Lyndsey and Katie left :( and Ally and I had one more night in the hotel and then we were off to Koh Rong with Kate – an English gal Ally introduced me to in Siem Reap!!
Koh Rong:
Koh Rong is supposed to be this beautiful island off of Sihanukville, and it definitely lived up to the hype. It just started being visited and built up about.. 8 months prior I think?And let me just say, I am soo happy that I made it there before tourism ruins it. On the island there is one area that has all the guesthouses and bungalows, one small little strip right on the beach. While I was there, I never heard or saw a motorbike! It was awesome. Every night, the power turns off at 10:00.
One day, we were lying on the beach and this buffalo randomly walks on by! It was soo funny!! Katie and I also trekked over to Long Beach, across the island, that we heard was supposed to be incredible. The trek was a bit tough.. a lot of big loose rocks to climb over, but when we got there, it was probably the most amazing beach I’ve ever been to. It was soo beautiful! The water was literally crystal clear. We hopped on a boat back to the other side of the island when we went back. That was a fun time getting onto lol.. we were literally pulled onto it because there was no ladder. My bottoms almost fell completely off hah!
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Next day it was back to Sihanukville, then it was off to Kampot for Ally and me!
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