Krong Koh Kong

We hopped a bus from Chi Phat (well, the highway at the turn-off for Chi Phat...we had to cycle ourselves back out of the bush!) with me puking and Cameron on his way to a state of nausea. Luckily the bus ride lasted only a couple hours, and the main floor of the bus was bare for luggage holding--which meant I sprawled myself across it in a sweaty, pukey heap. Thank you to Cam for taking care of such a thing!

Just a random shot showing off Cameron's madly creative photography skills. Look closely...do you see "Cambodia"?

We spent the first 2.5 days lying in bed, A/C cranked full blast, watching movie after movie after movie (luckily Cambodia happens to have six or seven pretty decent English channels, including one 24 hr. movie channel!) and eating next to nothing. Thankfully that passed and we hit the road...

We did a day tour to nearby Koh Kong Island. First off, was a stop not far from the guesthouse...outside the city is a Wildlife Santuary--a mangrove forest with a nice boardwalk through it.

Swingin', well..not quite...in the mangrove trees. What you can't see in this picture is how dodgy the track is. Cameron simply touched the railing and the whole thing broke down and fell into pieces in the water, whoops!

Next stop was a fishermen's village. This was similar to the floating villages we'd seen earlier in Cambodia, but much smaller and not quite the same dependance on boats as all the buildings were linked by a rickety bamboo walkway. We saw some people mending fishing nets, others relaxing in their hammocks, but the kids are always the highlight!

The little monkeys at the fishermens' village

Our last stop of the day was the island, and it was paradise. The water was warm and so crystal clear you saw right to the bottom. We were with the 6 other people on our tour, and that was it...had the beach quite literally to ourselves! The guides BBQ'd fish and veggie+pork skewers, and served mango salad on the side-YUM! We lazed around, read our books, and swam, swam, swam. An absolutely perfect day to celebrate a full recovery from our unwell tummies.

A serious slice of heaven.

Happy campers after a day on the beach!

While we had a couple more days in Krong Koh Kong, nothing exciting happened. After both being sick we kind of fell off the busy train and went into sloth mode. We tried to do some jungle trekking, but hit a wall with our plans a couple times and made the decision that perhaps it just wasn't meant to be. It's a long way out of the area, so we're jumping a bus to get down south for our last week in Cambodia.