Day 21 23.12.2014 Sad to leave this idyllic spot ! We were lucky to be able to leave our luggage at PuraVita in the personal care of the owner and just take a small overnight bag, daypack, handbag and snorkeling gear formour 4 days on the other "deserted" side of the island ...Sok San. We decided to walk to the main village - normally an easy 20 minute walk along the beach, and leave our water transfer for our bags to be sent to the ferry terminal on departure...

Day 19 21.12.2014 After a great 12 hour sleep, we enjoyed a tasty breakfast in the open-air restaurant with a view over the ocean and the surrounding islands. Tiny waves, as on a lake, lap up the beach ...the water has a gorgeous aquamarine hue and is around 26 - 27 degrees. Just heavenly. Taking our snorkeling gear we took a stroll along the beach to the jutting out headland, along which we saw some rocks in the water. The squeaky white sand was not too hot ...

Day 17 19.12.2014 Our last day in Battambang was celebrated by doing a Khmer Cooking course with LyLy, a graduate chef from the Siem Reap Hotel School, in his Coconut Restaurant. With the support of his parents he converted the ground floor of their family home into a restaurant in July 2014 (coming back to Battambang to assist his parents, as his father's blindness has prevented him from earning a living for the family). The business is run as a family busines...