Cambodia - Sihanoukville & Kampot (27 April - 4 May)

Sihanoukville had a bunch of great beaches: our favourite was usually pretty deserted and beautiful, with little islands in the bay and lovely white sand. Almost every evening there was an amazing sunset that covered the sky and changed colour every minute. There's also been some great thunder and lightning to balance it all out. We've been on the beach in the blazing sun while thunder rumbling in the distance and watched beautiful sunsets with flashes of lightning in the other direction. Our 3hr share taxi to Kampot meant 5 of us squeezed into an old Toyota; this meant us sharing the middle seat squeezed between two fat Frenchwomen - argh!

At Kampot we explored a couple of caves with a motorbike and guide - this meant us two squeezing onto a little motorbike behind the driver as he took us down narrow dirt roads and over a makeshift oil drum and wooden plank bridge. The caves were good and we did a bit of climbing around and sqeezing through holes. Also took a trip to the top of a nearby mountain where there's a ruined hill station, including a run down spooky old hotel on top of a hill that looked where the Addams family might live. We rode in the back of a pick up truck up a rough roack track through the jungled to get to the top, we're a bit battered and bruised! Trekked through a bit of jungle and managed to avoid any snakes (!) then had a boat trip out in the sea. Our trip back to Phnom Penh was in a new air conditioned bus, but unfortunately it was along an old dirt road and the new bus had crazy suspension that meant that we were all bouncing around like we were on space hoppers for 5 hours.