Up at 7 for a 7.30 leave for Sihanouville. A long '3 hour' bus ride later...(7 hours) we arrived at our bungalow hotel.

Headed for a bite to eat, one block round the corner, at the beach.
First impressions of this strip of sand along the coast, full of fat or overly tanned western toursits was not a great one! Made even worse by the amount of rubbish floating in the near sea-water. We couldn't wait to escape the following day to a near-by island for a days trip-hoping it would both be more quiet and less polluted.
Dinner was a BBQ at one of the many places on the beach. It was a lot quieter in the evening, and the atmosphere a lot better, as the group sat about fifteen feet from the water. Everyone went for a quick drink together before at a bar just down the beach, enjoying the prospect of some escapism on a quiet beach the next day