On our 1st weekend here, a group of 9 of us went away for the weekend to a place called Sihanoukville. We got a bus after work on Friday and the journey took 5 hours so we arrived at 11pm. We went to a guest house to check if they have space for us to stay for the night and they did luckily. The guest house was called Sunset Garden. The owner was described in the guide book as being eccentric and she certainly was! She told us all about how the doctors told her she was going to die years ago and she started making her own medicine to treat herself and she is still alive so she calls herself Mama medicine! She was very helpful though. We wanted to take the boat out at 8am the next morning to an island called Koh Rong and she organised it all for us.
The boat ride to the island took 2 hours. The approach to the island was beautiful though! I couldn’t wait to get there and explore it. We got there and were briefed on the information we needed to know about the island, and we went on a search for accommodation. We took a boat to Treehouse Bungalows, but they were full. We headed back and asked a few other guest houses, but they were all also full. We stopped for breakfast as we were all getting very tired and hungry, and then we managed to find a place after breakfast which had enough room. We settled in and then spent the day just relaxing at the beach. It was amazing! And the weather was great. It was nice to just spend the day eating, drinking, reading, writing, and just relaxing! We got the 10am boat back the next morning followed by the 2pm bus back to Phnom Penh so we got back to the Guesthouse at 8pm on Sunday evening. Here are a few pictures from the weekend: