Cambodia (2) - Kep - National Park, Mini Caving and Super Chilling

Hope you have enjoyed the time off and the wedding. We spent 3 nights in Sinouk Ville; just chilling out and receiving massages on the beach... hard times!

One of the days that we were in Sihnouk Ville was Easter Sunday; so in a truly British way we had a roast on the beach.

The next day we headed to the small town of Kampot near the south coast of Cambodia. We liked this place because the people were interested in us as Westerners instead of walking dollars. Our guest house was a small place with little bungalows looking over a lily covered pond. The owner was a really nice family man who looked after us.

Once we arrived we headed out to Phnom Chnork (Seeing Hill) where little kids guided us around caves with 1,300 year old temples and bats in them.

These kids were amazing at leading us around the caves (a job for Holly?) and were rewarded with some Dollars and Riels! The tuk-tuk ride was hilarious; a huge monsoonal rain hit us and we were soaked. The next day was spent around Kampot because of exhaustion and illness; the architecture was a mixture of traditional and colonial. We also saw the Monk Mobile (last picture)!

The next day, Dave and I went for a hike in the nearby Bokor National Park and a boat ride down the Kampong Bay river. Bokor was being converted in to casino resort by the French before independence came to the country. The day was hard work but well worth it! The park had tigers in it; so we had a guard with us at all times!

The boat ride was at sunset which showed the area differently.

The next day we went to the quiet coastal town of Kep, only 60km from the Vietnamese border. We took a tuk-tuk ride from Kampot and spent the day swimming in very shallow water and laying in a hammock.

That night we watched a lightning storm over the sea.

The next day we did a 10hr bush taxi/local bus trip to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)...and that is where we are now. A Vietnam update should be up soon...