sihanoukville

Well i was going to do a blog called the good the bad and the ugly but then Norwich drew with Chelsea and me and Amy had a few drinks and my imagination has vanished into oblivion. What an amazing result!!!

So we left Angkor and moved on to Battambang which was a very pleasant. The people in Battambang are known for there friendliness and they didnt dissapoint. Most days were spent just walking along taking in a place which intruth is the best example we have seen of Cambodian culture. There isnt much tourists here so every corner we turned we were greeted with a hello. As we searched Battambang we went to the muesum so a massive statue of some god(his name escapes me) Watched fisherman on the river. and visted an art gallery. We had the pleasure of visting some restaurants with a scheme of taking on young vunerable woman and teaching them the restaurant trade,the loc lak was delicious .

There are many fantastic schemes like this in Cambodia but there also some scheme that cant be trusted. unfortunatley alot of ophanges are very corrupt most with no child protection in place.It breaks our heart to see young children on the streets of Cambodia picking up litter or simply begging etc. lots of these kids are forced on to the streets and giving them money only keeps them on the streets its a vicious cycle.
i have details of charities that i would like to support when im home and have money.

We got on the bus in Battambang and braced ourselves for a 10 hour trip to Sihanoukville we arrived at 8pm so it ended up being 12 hours. we read our out of date rough guide 2008 that pointed us in the direction of    "Weather station hill is a cheap a cheerfull place to stay"". we walked around this place for a place to eat and realised that every bar was full of men over 50 with young Cambodian girls. This place was absolutley disgracefull. sleazy isnt even the word i felt intimadated walking round there eyes glaring in our direction. we just want to eat and get to bed and leave. unfortunatley a man came and sat down and talk to us. He was trying to justify other peoples behaviour making statments like " they are well looked after here" and "at least they have money they are the lucky ones" thats for me is the sick insight into the mentality of a people who delph into sex tourism. After everything this countrys gone through i cant believe this world exists. I have some stories regarding this but i think of said enough.

needless to say we left the next day and went to serendipity beach which is beautiful we are topping up are tan the sea and sand are superb. Tomorrow is Chinesse new year so were expecting fireworks should be amazing.

we are almost at the end of this leg of the trip Vietnam is calling are next blog should be from there.....

i hope you enjoyed this blog im sorry if it aint the best or there is spelling mistakes. But Holt is better than Torres and for that reason we had to celebrate

take care people