Return to Cambodia
February 2005
Ever since returning from my first visit in 2004, I was itching to return to Cambodia. My buddy Don was also interested to see Cambodia again. So February 1, my birthday, we got up at 5 a.m. and went to the airport to fly to Manila and on to Bangkok.
We landed in Bangkok and checked into the Dynasty Hotel....aircon and hot showers. It's a step up from my usual traveling style (fan room and shared bathroom), but I was willing to fork out a few extra baht to accommodate Don's slightly more upscale traveling style. Wow, my first hot shower in almost a year!
That evening we met up with our mutual buddy Kevin and went out to dinner, then visited Nana Plaza, Bangkok's famous nightlife entertainment complex....quite a place.
*To my great disappointment, I lost all my photos from the first five days of the trip, due to a camera memory card malfunction. Bummer!
The next day Don and I took buses across eastern Thailand and crossed into Cambodia at Koh Kong, a sleepy but developing border town at the mouth of the Stung Koh Poi River.
After two relaxing days in Koh Kong, we took a boat across the southernwest coast of Cambodia to Sihanoukville, population 155,000. Sihanoukville was "hacked out of the jungle" in the late 1950's to create Cambodia's only deep-water port. National Highway 4 was constructed to connect it to the capitol Phnom Penh, 230 km to the north.
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Chinese New Years: the air was thick with firecracker smoke and families were busy making New Year's offering to the deities.
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Three nights in Sihanoukville and then we moved on to Kampot
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