Cambodia Part 2

Hello!

Since we spoke to you last we have waved goodbye to Cambodia and hello to Jomtien in Thailand (near Pattaya). Let me fill you in on the last half of our Cambodia trip.
We spent a few days in the capital Phnom Pehn taking in the sights. One day we visited the Killing Fields and S21, both vile examples of the Kymer Rouge's cruelty. The killing fields is a site where the Kymer Rouge killed 17,000 people and buried them in mass graves. S21 is a school converted into a prison where people wear held and tortured before being sent to the killing fields. Quite a depressing day out that one.

We spent the rest of time visiting the palace (the first picture - which includes a miniture model of Ankor Wot in the foreground) and wandering around the city.

Next we headed south to Kampot which is a lovely sleepy place beside a river (second picture). We used Kampot as a base for visiting a few nearby sighths. The third picture is of the Bokor Hotel in the Bokor hill station, a creepy abandoned town on top of a hill. We visited a cave which we were guided through by five chatty kids, and Kep, a small pretty seaside town where we ate crabs and paddled.

Our last stop in Cambodia was Sihanoukville, the major beach destination of Cambodia. The original plan was to spend a good few days there and do some diving but the accomidation was overpriced and we were informed by several sources that the diving was crap. We spent a day by the beach before making the 14 hour bus journey here.

We are staying in a fantastic apartment in the same complex as Sueann's mum and dad. We are planning to go for a dive then eat some lobster on Christmas day and until then we are chilling out and planning the Malaysian leg of the trip.

If we don't do another entry for a while then Merry Christmas :)