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We spent the last two days in Sihanoukville which is a cute and funky little beach town in Cambodia . As soon as we arrived we dumped our bags and headed straight for the beach! Loads of people and beach bar after beach bar line the strip of the powdery white beach. We found a spot and spent the afternoon lounging in the sun, swimming in the insanely warm ocean and put up with a lot of begger kids trying to sell bracelets and pedicures.After they realized we weren't going to buy anything it was quite nice to chat with them, the local children are so keen to learn English and they are pretty clever as well. One little girl was asking me if I wanted a bracelet I said " no I don't want one,thank you" she quickly replied with " ok then you buy two".
We decided that the best option for our second day here was to take a boat over to one of the uninhabited islands off shore for some real R&R. We stopped at two spots along the way to snorkel. Once on the island between swimming and sun bathing we were treated to a delicious meal( one of the best so far) barracuda fish marinated in garlic and soy sauce ( I had the same but delicious tofu) a salad,some veggie rice and a baguette... With some fresh mango ,pineapple ,watermelon and dragon fruit. And to wash it all down with some delicious local Angkor beer!
After the day trip was over we headed back to our hotel on beach road had a dip in the pool, showed off some of our water skills and then got a 45 min massage (which was amazing) before having dinner on the beach. Karli had a seafood BBQ and Cynthia had a jacket potato with baked beans, both were delicious. Most of the group got a local favorite to drink which is a bucket(literally a sand pale) filled with your choice of rum or vodka and mix, this is only three dollars. We were expecting it to be weak but no sir they free poor in this town. Karli and I stuck to the Angkor. The Brits showed us some new drinking games,we shot off fire works then we headed down the beach to a dance party...where we danced the night away. A perfect fair well to Cambodia.
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