Hi everyone, hope all is well with you all. We've had a lovely couple of days in Kampot. It's a beautiful town on the banks of a river in the south of Cambodia, surrounded by jungle-clad moutains. It's a really peaceful place - just what we needed. In a few years I'm sure this area will be a lot more touristy, but at the moment it is so quiet - we've only seen about 10 westerners in the last 48 hours.
Yesterday we took a VERY bumpy 2 hour ride in the back of a pick-up truck to the top of Bokor Hill, which used to be a resort in the French colonial times. The hill station was abandoned in the 70s, and is now a ghost-town straight out of Scooby Doo, complete with an old church and casino. When we got to the top the clouds descended, and it was really atmospheric (and a little bit spooky!).
Today we hired some bikes and cycled to a pretty waterfall and then on to a Wat, where all of the orange-robed monks were very happy to see us and to practice their English on us. It was a really lovely experience, topped off by a stunning sunset. The internet connection isn't very good here, but I'll post some photos when we get back to civilisation.
Right, better go and have some dinner in a minute. June's being massaged by a blind woman at the moment, to try and relieve the aches and pains picked up on the truck-ride and the bicycle. Tomorrow we head back to Phnom Penh for a day, and then on to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat, which we're really looking forward to. The trip is getting a bit more difficult to plan now we are approaching a fixed end date, but if all goes well we should get back to Bangkok on the 14th and then fly to Oz on the 15th for the second leg of our journey.....
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