Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Sihanoukville..

An amazing beach resort in Cambodia we left there yesterday after 5 days of debourchery, we met up with 3 friends we made in Halong Bay and spent the entire time drunk, or getting drunk.
It has crystal water, squeeky sand, and many beach bars! We went to the Full Moon Party on Saturday night which was amazing. Wierdly the aim of a full moon party seems to be to stay up until the sunrise, so we went out on a mission, had too much beer, red bull, and black cat whiskey and ended up only making it till 4am! (2 hours before sunrise). The fact that the bar had run out of all of the above didn't help.
On a more depressing note Sihanoukville, had a darker side, walking on the beach at night was pretty nerve wracking, it was the first time in S.E Asia I felt like i needed to look behind me, and hold on tight to Sam.
Unfortunatley our worries became true when an Australian guy was stabbed in the neck and back at 4:00pm on the beach about 200yrds away from where we were sitting. He died before the ambulance could arrive, and was killed by a begger who he wouldn't pay. You have to understand that in Cambodia you get asked at least 100 times a day for money, it's impossible to help everyone, so often you have to decline.
We didn't actually see or hear the murder, but everybody knew about it and was horrified, a few of the locals warned us aswell. I checked the News on Google and BBC and couldn't find anything about it, so if anyone heard the news don't worry - we are OK and in Siem Riep sober and visiting temples.
P.S We have no pictures of Sihanoukville, too scared to get the camera out.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not an entry I enjoyed reading. Glad you are out of there

9:29 PM  

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