Hope you still remember that I am backpacking throughout southeast asia ;-)...last chapter was more than a month ago! ..it's been 'two whiles' since then!!. Please forgive me, but it is just that Vietnam is so nice and so..HUGE..that it really leaves you little time to accomplish 'administrative' tasks such as updating your blog..!
After my apologies, here we go!, last chapter, Ratanakiri, northeast of Cambodia, remote and dusty region. After a couple of days sick (of course that happens when travelling), I headed to the south to change my mind...I needed some rest and to chill out on the beach while sipping a beer...After 12 hours of bus, I finally got to Sihanoukville, exactly on the 17th of february. For those who travel or have travelled in Asia, you may know that this day is the Chinese New Year (or Tet)...the most important holiday in Asia. That means that prices double and moreover it becomes nearly impossible to find any accomodation...Arriving late in the evening does not help either....so we ended up in a free dorm in one of the most popular night clubs in Cambodia..UTOPIA!. Hopefully I met Sophie, Claire and Emilie, three very nice french girls who work in Pekin as french teachers. We spent our time in the south together and we really had a great time, hope I see u again in China!.
Indeed, it was really utopic to go to bed at 4am...to try to get asleep with the full volume music in the bar until 6 pm...and to be awaken up by millions of mosquitoes seeking your blood...hopefully next day the magnificent Otres beach did some nice work and we could finally take some rest
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The Cambodian coast cannot compete with Thailand's in natural beauty (at least that is what most people says!), however it still has got a couple of spots reachable by boat which are, in my own view, impressive...here u are a couple of pics of an unknown beach in the area and Ko Ta Kiev island. For those who are looking for some adventure, u can even overnight in this island in the so called 'Tonty's Jungle Camp', run by a nice english man (Jonathan!) who has cleared out the jungle to make some 'rooms' (basically an hammock with a mosquito net on top of a wooden floor!).
Before logging off, check out a couple of sights the national park of Ream offers
And that's all for the time being, see u in a bit !!
Jona
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Hi Jona, I can see you're still having a wonderful time! Good for you ;-) Enjoy!
nb: some of your 'right' pictures are not clickable ...
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