Tag: Sihanoukville

Earlyish start – pleasant drive back from Sihanoukville arriving back [in Phnom Penh] at lunchtime. (Short stop at Pich Nil again).

Lunch of “everything soup” at hotel – then off touring.

Go to Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda – very photogenic. Then on to Wat Phnom which wasn’t.

After touring, this day subsequently weirded out, with our fortune teller session…

Strange Things A Fortune Teller Told Me, Phnom Penh, 10 February 2001

…followed by the somewhat surreal dinner that evening, with the Phnom Penh agency dude who was sure we needed some TLC after our off piste touring, which we didn’t…

Off Piste In Cambodia, Phnom Kulen, Kbal Spean, Banteay Srei and Aftermath, 7th and 10th February 2001

If you want to see all the pictures from the Phnom Penh & Sihanoukville leg of our journey, click here or the picture link below;

Left early for Sihanoukville – four hour drive. Stop off on way to refresh/make offerings to Pich Nil who blesses the journeys along that road.

Lunch of chicken soup at Seaside Hotel. Then lovely afternoon the beach. I get chatted up by lots of pretty girls as usual. Daisy fends them off.

While there was something a bit sleepy-seedy about Sihanoukville back then, it hadn’t even faintly started its boom as a casino and high rise seaside city, nor its even more recent bust as a scam and crime town.

Early evening at La Feulle restaurant where we tried chicken curry, Khmer sweet-and-sour pork and mixed veg and rice. I’m shattered so we have an early night had a good sleep.

All out pictures from the Phnom Penh/Sihanoukville stage of our trip can be found through this link or the picture one below: