In Phnom Penh I stopped in the Big Luck again, the next morning I carried on to Sihanouk Ville (Kompong Som). It is possible to get there from Phnom Penh with the cheap bus, the price being three dollars, or with the VIP bus for five dollars. I had a girl with me and took a taxi, 40 dollars.

Breakfast during the journey: We had these really delicious baguettes which one can get all over at mobile street stalls. They had learned to bake baguettes from the French, they taste better than in Germany. They have a sort of liver cheese pâté and goose liver on them. Depending on the time of day, this stuff may have been on the baguettes for a few hours in the blazing heat, this could be seen by the change of colour, and the ball of meat where it had been cut off got darker towards the inside. To go with it, there is a hot and spicy sauce and another liquid that I could not identify, which was taken from a pot that did not look very friendly either, finally, whole spring onion to top it off, finished. Lovely, for my girlfriend and the driver, I preferred to eat a dry baguette, have had one or the other experience in this country when it comes to eating... 

Stopped in the Golden Castel again (see hotel tip on the homepage), this time I took the large suite, haggled the price down to 45 US dollars (50). There was even a sauna in the room…. That’s for those who need such a thing. Forget the whirlpool, not enough water pressure, apart from that, great.

Hotel, bath, room, view: 

I really enjoyed SHV again this time. The small town is up and coming…. It hadn’t really been all that necessary to take a girl along, there seemed to be enough possibilities there. The plank brothels down at the harbour (next to the Khmer disco BIBA) are open, Blue Mountain with the Vietbrothels as well. A new place (was new to me) the “Victory Hill”, a street with around 20 bars and restaurants. Short Time hotel is nearby (good room five US dollars). Not bad.

Victory Hill: Bars, girls, on the way back to the ST hotel... 

The main attraction of the town as far as I am concerned is that it is spread out and the nice beaches. Motorbike hire (3 – 5 US dollars/day), girl on the back and off you go, down to the beaches and into the water, the holiday feeling as if on an island.

Beaches, shop assistants, fun on the beach: