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Today was the massive journey to Sihanoukville on the south coast of Cambodia. We fancied a little change in scenery and as we haven't seen the sea for 6 weeks it sounded like a good idea. We were up again far too early, 5.30am and caught the first bus after a quick breakfast at 6am. We returned to the capital Phnom Penh at around 1pm quickly grabbed lunch and boarded a dirty bus, with dripping AC (beginning to think its better not to have it), and far too loud Khmer Karaoke video, and made Sihanoukville for 6pm. It took about 12 hours in total, it's not even that far it's just the roads are awful.

First impressions were disappointing, turning dusk the town was lit-up with seedy neon lights full of western "sex tourists" (as they're called by the authorises here), middle aged men, surround by Khmer young girls here for only one reason.........

We quickly found a place to stay, currently the cheapest (with electricity) in the world so far at 95p each a night with en-suite, WIFI, fan, and cable TV, shame about the town otherwise Tom would be here the whole trip!

We pottered through the main strip to find the only restaurant without a middle aged westerner sat at the bar. We had a few beers, won $0.25 from a Angkor beer ring-pull (it pays to drink here, "My country, my beer" remember), and spent all the money we'd saved on the room on the bill. Worth it though.