Sihanoukville = Amazing

Hi everyone:)

So we arrived in Sihanoukville around midnight on Monday 4th February, we started our travels from Pai, North Thailand at 2pm the day before. We decided to do it all in one hit as we got to Bangkok at 5am and had the intention of staying there that night to break the journey up but  the hostel that we checked into was used as a whore house and Lee & I saw so many prostitutes taking men there and leaving half an hour later and sitting in the hostels reception at that hour just made us think yuck!!
We went to the first travel agents open at 7.45am and booked a bus leaving at 9am :) Lots of buses and eventually a taxi from the Cambodia/Thailand border took us down to Sihanoukville :) 1600km journey but we made it and found a nice guest house to check into.

We were so excited to be at a beach resort, the first place we've been on our travels where we can just have a dip in the sea and lie on the beach, so that's exactly what we did for 3 days & nights. We found a guest house with two massive beds for the 4 of us to share which had air con and was huge for $5 a night each and was only a few minutes walk to the beach.

In our time in Sihanoukville we literally did nothing, the nightlife there was pretty good, lots of westerners working in the bars and it was all a bit mad! Food was pretty good, similar to Thai and we stayed on Serendipity beach and the beachfront is  full of bars/restaurants with tables & chairs all on the beach and each one serving a BBQ for dinner as well as Khmer food and western dishes.
We met Faye the following day who we met in Chiang Mai as she was over there on her travels and Max came with us too (after a bit of persuasion)
We went out that night and ended up playing beer pong and ring of fire and consuming lots of buckets of whiskey and coke and we also met a girl called Marie from Denmark who was staying in the same dorm as Faye, so there was a few of us out and of course as there are so many travellers there there ended up being about 12 of us playing card games. Once we finished that as we were in a beach front bar we decided (half cut) that it would be a good idea to go swimming in the sea and that night ended up in me like this;

The following day me, Max, Lora and Lee had booked a boat trip and paid a deposit to go visit a desert island and go snorkeling etc but the boys were too hungover to move, so ended up just me and Lora.
They missed out! Beautiful clear waters and white sandy beach, we did a  little trek through the forest and ended up walking through a river and once that was over we got to lie on the white sandy beach for the afternoon :) Great hangover cure!

That evening the boys had recharged their batteries and we just chilled with a few beers in the company of Faye and Marie.
Thursday we chilled by the beach soaking up the sun. Got myself a pedicure and manicure on the beach and and on Friday we booked a booze cruise run by one of the bars..!
2pm it started and literally was just 40 travellers on a little boat getting drunk! I've never been on a booze cruise so was my first time, was seriously messy lol! We met at their bar "Dolphin Shack" and were given a free bucket of whiskey and coke before we even got on board (which we all said we wouldn't be getting too drunk) they went down a treat and as we were boarding the boat they gave us all a can of beer, shoved a hole in the bottom and all together opened the can and downed the beer - my first shot gun!
We got drawn all over with random facts about us which didn't wash off for 2 days!
Usual shenanigans on board; topless diving for free beers, beer bongs, licking chocolate sauce off each other and whiskey trains.. literally all on the boat for one reason.. binge drinking!!

 It was a lot of fun but by the time we got off (6pm) we were smashed! Lee & I went home as he needed to go to bed to sober up and I came off the boat and stepped on glass and my foot was pissing blood everywhere.
By the time I got back to our apartment my foot was fine so dragged Lee to a nearby bar, we had a beer and he went home but I stayed and played pool. I must have played about 7 games with the guys in the bar and won every time except one guy who finally beat me.. I couldn't believe my luck, the role however has now ended!

Lee & Max having a play fight with Cambodian kids, there was about 5  kids running around with them , they then all came and sat with me while I was skyping Mum and Emily, so sweet! I may come home with an adopted Cambodian child.. Angelina Jolie did it, so  can I :P

So anyway on our last day (Saturday 9th) we hung out in one of the beach bars in the shade with everyone and the Toms from Chiang Mai finally made it down and came met us for a couple drinks.
We booked the night bus up to Siam Reap and left a few days earlier than anticipated as the following day was Chinese New Year so took the sleeper bus that night after saying goodbye to Max who went to meet his girlfriend in Bangkok, our time travelling together had come to an end :(.
It was pretty decent, WIFI on board and bunkbed seats (hard to explain), such a curse having long legs and a rucksack, you need to be able to stretch out for a good nights sleep! Me & Lee were both a little tipsy when we got on and he had me in stitches, we really do bounce off each other :D

So that was Sihanoukville :) definitely the best beach I've ever been to and the Cambodians are so much nicer than the Thais!

I'll write about Siam Reap and Battambang soon, lots of love xxxxxx