CAMBODIA

we arrived in Phnom pehn ar 13.00

First beer in Cambodia 

 We found a cheap place to eat before we walked to street 172 area where backpacker area was , we found a nice guest house called RS guest house we had 2 beds and it was clean and huge room molly decided to open a shop on her bed it was so big

Whilst here we visited the genocide prison s21 this was so hard to visit as it showed what happened I found it very disturbing 

Here we met a survivor who signed his book for us his story is sad when you visit here bring tissues it’s not for the feint hearted
The national museum and the royal palce were great as the photos show

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we had our first cambodian meal which was really tasty 

On the last night the girls went to watch a traditional dance show whilst dad went to have a beer


After 3 days we caught the new train service to the south to kep

As you can see it’s a huge train

Here the girls are eating breakfast as the train leaves at 07.00 it runs only 3 days a week on Friday to Sunday but is cheap and for us better than a bus for a change

Once we arrived at kampot station we took a tuk tuk to the bus station to catch bus to kep As it was 5 km from here to far to walk in the heat , we caught the bus which took 40 mins to kep on a very bumpy road but we arrived at the beach front at kep and went in search for a room ,after 3 places we finally choose the boathouse it was run by a french man called Dominic it was very nice he gave us a large room for price of a small one but no air con we booked for 3 nights but to be honest there is not a lot to do here in kep it is dirty and run down 

we rented a bike and went round the national park and visited a pepper farm and here they let us swim in there pool very kind of them ,molly loved it

We also went to the crab market which was not what we expected but we had a nice meal over the sea

The final day we caught a bus to Sihanoukville about 135 km about way to the west 

After driving for about 3 hours we went past otres beach where where we wanted to stay so we asked driver to stop which he did and we saved ourselves a 10 km tuk tuk ride which was great

 On otres beach road there are lots of accomadation  at different prices so we tried a few and got a good price for 5 nights of 15 dollars and this was with a pool 


Across the road there was a great Italian resturant owned and run by Italians with a great beach bar and sun beds which they let us use for free, they liked molly 
They also own a few around otres which we tried I recommend a visit to any of them

Molly doing more homework this time using Chinese  method of drawing

She wrote her name in Chinese as well we made pen from a tree old style

The last day we had to get up early to catch minivan to thailand and koh chang island, we went  here ten years ago and can’t wait to go back to see what has changed