Feb 4, 2010 - Westward Ho

Time to move on out of this place. Plan to spend a day or two at Koh Kong near the Thai border before we cross over. Supposed to be a quieter place, we'll see. Sihanoukville was quite an experience in many ways. We had expected the typical beach scene with hotels, bars and ubiquitous tourists - it was all of that but there was a very sinister feel to it. Hotels and bars owned by expats, mostly Russians who navigated their $100,000 Hummers around road hazards such as legless beggars and starving children and had a very menacing aura (no...