Sihanoukville - a difficult name to say. A Beach town in the making - seems like they are just getting the idea of tourism and the word is that the hope is for these few beaches to become the new Phuket. The beaches are lovely yet the area suffers from the same issue all over Cambodia - garbage - everywhere. There is no garbage collection so people just throw their refuse at the side of the road so the plastics and Styrofoam has started to become a big issue. ...

Phonm Penh  I got a computer!!!! In PP!!!! With lots of help and some great Karma. The nice guy at the guesthouse that was full that I went to with the girl from France suggested a place to buy a computer. I had been going back and forth at home, researching every which way but loose on which one to buy , the ratings, searching other's blogs to see if there was enough wifi to make it worthwhile....you know - my regular due diligence, excessive analytica...

I just looked at the card to see the name of the Guest House where I am staying - I just noticed the description on the card....."Our Guest House has......room with large and beautiful toilet with good hygiene" Looked normal to me.............didn't quite realize it was a feature. Took the bus from Battambang to PP today -- 5 hours or so, uneventful and full bus - lots of stops to eat and have a pee or grab a quick bag of fresh sauteed grasshoppers with ch...

Battambang oh Battambang.  Battambang is lovely. Quiet, sleepy, not yet found by the tourist trail. It does have a schizophrenic history - and very recent one to boot. Battambang is still one of the last vestiges of the Khymer Rouge - they say that many KR fled to these mountains/hills and it was the place to last find any peace. The shellings only stopped in 1998. Still lots of land mines around. KR were arrested here for war crimes only in 2007. The qu...

 The boat trip from Siem Reap to Battambang was about  8 and a half hours. It was advertised, kind of like to the scam bus to Cambodia, as estimated to take anywhere from 6 to 23 hours. Everything in this country depends on the conditions - conditions of the weather, the equipment, the mood, the karma, you name it and it can change everything. For the boat trip, the conditions at this time of year - the dry season - make the river part of the voyage quite d...