Sihanoukville

Monday I was up early to get the bus to Phnom Penh. It was a
rickity old thing but there were a few other Westerners on board. A
girl who was travelling with 2 guys sat next to me. We got chatting
and she has just done what I've done, quit her job and is travelling
around for 7 months with her mate.

When we got to PP I shared a tuk tuk with her and her mates and we
stayed at the Happy Guest House on the lake which was really pretty.
I shared a twin room with her to lower costs and we even had our own
bathroom, luxury!!

We then got 4 motobikes to take us to the S-21 jail where the Khmer
Rouge detained and tortured loads of innocent Cambodians. It was very depressing, and to say that it all happened not so long ago. Then we went to the Killing Fields where they found all the mass graves. The ones that they have dug up are not very deep at all and they packed loads of bodies in. There are still clothes and bones embedded in the ground between the graves of some of the dead which made walking around the place a bit uncomfortable, to be walking over the dead. And there are still around 45 graves that they haven't dug up. Not a fun sight seeing experience.

Then we motored back to the guest house in rush hour traffic. That
was a little more scarey than Siem Reap as there are plenty of
vehichles on the road in PP and my driver wanted to be first all the time - we had a few close calls but they don't seem to worry about it at all. The road system is very much organised chaos!! We had dinner at the guest house and played cards and I lost.

Up early to catch another bus to the beach. Only 4 hours! We have
stayed at a nice place again with our own bathroom and TV - hooray!!!
Spent the past few days chilling on the beach and having dinner out in the evening. Already got quite a nice tan!!

Today Fiona, Gary and Olly all went back to PP and then they are off to Vietnam. They are doing a similar trip to me but a bit faster as they only have until July to fit it all in!!

So today I chilled on my own on the beach. It's not massively developed yet which is nice but you can see the potential. There are a lot of holida makers here from all over the world.

Tomorrow I am heading to a different beach, at the moment I am on
Serendipity Beach and tomorrow I'll head to Victory Beach which has a
few more guest houses. We got handed a flyer about an open air cinema which is showing 'Memoirs of a Geisha' which I really want to see so I am going to try and stay at the guest house where they are showing it!!

I have my Vietnam visa although a girl I was taking to on the beach
was saying the weather is crap there at the moment. I had planned to
leave here on Monday but maybe I'll stay a little longer...!!!

The place I am emailing from were just playing a Christmas CD but now they've put Michael Bolton on, awesome!!!