December 23, 2010
It was hard for us to leave exciting Phnom Penh, even with the lure of the Cambodian beaches as the next stop. At the end of a long drive to the southern coast, we got to Sihanouk Ville on the Gulf of Thailand. It’s a seedy beach town that’s just figuring out if it’s capable of shouldering a real estate boom. It’s building beach-side buildings, but often without buyers.
Still, you can see the appeal. Scuba divers love it there. The beaches are pretty white and not crowded at all. There’s lots of hotels for backpackers and Cambodian women/older girls for leering, old Western men. Ken walked by himself through the streets of one beach town and was offered both drugs and hookers, just in the 5 minutes it took to drop off our laundry.
We stayed in a lovely, sprawling, uncrowded resort where we could lay under straw umbrellas with no other people obstructing the water, 10 feet in front of us.
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