Grabbed the 8 AM ferry to the island of koh rong yesterday morning. We'd read that this is one of the most beautiful beaches in all of SE Asia so we were pretty excited to get here. Well to say its beautiful is an understatement. You can't even believe this is Cambodia. It seems like there are about 50 people on the island total which means you pretty much have the beach to yourself. The beaches are probably the most beautiful we've seen in SE Asia. Think the panhandle of Florida or Clearwater beach Florida. White powder sand that goes on and on and on. The water is turquoise and completely clear. I just can't say enough about the beaches here!!!! The beach at Koh Phi Phi was the most spectacular, but this place may have the better actual beach.
Anyway, coming here means you're camping. No power (except for a couple hours at night) and of course, cold showers. We stayed at a place called CoCo's for our first 2 nights which has been super nice. We have our own bungalow, bed, shower and mosquito net! From our porch you can just see the beach and we even have a hammock. Just an FYI though, the hammocks only hold 1 person. We attempted to get in it together which ended with both of us on the ground writhing in pain. Carolyn now has a lovely blue'ish, green'ish, yellow'ish bruise on her arm and I have an extremely large bump on my hip bone which makes me look like the hunch back of Notre Dame.
Our room also came with a large family of Mosquitos and some other creature who dearly loves to eat soap. The mosquitos have figured out how to infiltrate our mosquito net and consequently feast on our tender legs all night. The soap eating creature takes a few nibbles out of our soap just to let us know he's watching is and then during the night he takes the rest of the bar. Not very nice.
Yesterday we spent lazing around the. Beach and just playing in the water. Today we tried to trek across the island to a beach on the other side. We were told we could just walk through the village (which had like 3 houses), through the jungle and then we'll come out to a beautiful beach in about an hour. Well after trekking through the jungle and mountains for about 1.25 hours we came out to very lovely, familiar beach. Yes, somehow we made several wrong turns and ended up about 20 meters away from where we started!!!!!! So we had a couple laughs and just ran into the water.
Tonight we booked a dive trip for tomorrow and I went out for a night dive. It was Awesome!!! Saw some truly amazing creatures and had a great time. Came back and had dinner and a couple drinks with the Mrs and some new American friends. What a great night!!!! Really loving it here except for the sleeping part.
Pics:
1) Carolyn in our room
2) the beach!!!!
3) Carolyn on our 1 person hammock.
4) view from the restaurant.
5) us on the ferry.
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