The last week has been quiet and relaxing.  We spent six days down by Sihanoukville, Cambodia.  This area is purely known for its really nice beaches.  It was also a great time to enjoy some food.  Megan and I started every morning pretty early with a nice little breakfast and hurrying down to the beach.  Typically there were only a few people on the beach up until noon, so it was a good time to enjoy the beach and do some quality reading.  Every evening on the beach all the restaurants and bars would have a bbq out front.  Megan and I took good advantage of this having squid, barracuda, and prawn (big shrimp).  I thoroughly enjoyed the squid myself, so if you have a chance to try bbq squid you should.  Megan found that one restaurant had an awesome veggie burger, and I would have to agree as it was the best I have ever had.

Once the weekend started tons of locals started showing up.  As we found out that Monday was the beginning of the Kings Birthday, and it lasted for three days.  It was interesting as most of the locals stayed to one side of the beach, but many of the establishments stopped doing happy hour or food specials.  Also, all the people that walked the beach selling stuff were quite irritated with the influx of Cambodian tourists.  I am guessing that is because they wouldn’t pay the prices asked for their wares.  Megan made a fun relationship with a little boy, Ben,  that kept trying to sell us bracelets and later roman candles.  He stopped by to talk to us every evening.

While the beach was pretty full we rented a scooter and ventured off to some of the other beaches.  North of us there were a few other beaches but they were run by Russians, and we had overheard they were not as pleasant.  To access the beach you had to be staying at their resort or stick to a small section that was occupied by a bar.  South of us was a nice quieter beach built more for the backpackers.  If it hadn’t been for the higher food prices there we would have stayed there.

Part way through our stay we had a front come through that brought a little bit of rain, but even better is that it stirred up some waves in the water.  This might have been one of Megan’s favorite things while we were there.  She was like a little kid in the water, but so was nearly everyone else.  All the locals would walk out to about knee height, and when a wave came in they would do a little hop.  It was hilarious.

Aside from all the people watching, reading, relaxing, and good food there wasn’t much else.  Since then we have made an overnight bus trip up to Siem Reap, but we will cover that in another post. All the pictures up until now should be up in the gallery.  Cheers!