After too many late nights watching the World Cup football matches starting at 01:30 in the morning and then not finishing until around 04:00 and then ruining the next day just by sleeping in all morning and most of the afternoon. Last night I decided to have an early night so that I could hire a motorbike today and head out to try to see some of the local area. It was quite weird after Vietnam having to leave my passport as a deposit and also sign an insurance...

Today I had a nice lay in and decided to go for a walk along the beach which was called Serendipity Beach closest to the backpackers area and all the beach front bars, then along Occheuteal Beach where many of the locals were and finally around the small headland and on to Otres Beach. Otres Beach was a long stretch of beach front that has not really been developed yet, so was very quiet and only had a couple of beach front bars/restaurants staking claim to thei...

After the depressing day of visiting the Killing Fields and the (S-21) Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, I decided it was time to leave Phnom Penh and head south on the bus to Sihanouk Ville. Where I could relax a bit by the sea on the beaches down there.I didn't really get up to much today, just sat on the bus for about 6 hours while we drove down to Sihanouk Ville and then once I had found a hostel and booked in, which was the Guesthouse GSK at a cost of $5 (US)...