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// July 7th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Koh Kong
The day after we met Ohlak all we did was sit on the beach… We litterally didnt move all day, the best kind way to recover after a night like that…In the evening we got caught in a downpour on our way to say goodbye to everyone at tree house, we stood under the roof of a little coffee shop called Mr A’s coffe shop and he invited us in to sit down while the rain passed, so we ordered some coffees and a bite to eat and not only was he one of the nicest people we have met on our travels but he also served up the best plate of homemade chips I think ive had for a long long time!!!
We stayed and had a drinkipoos at Treehouse with our friends before saying our goodbyes and heading back to pack our bags. We are both quite sad about leaving Koh Chang but we are both exited about the next place too…
This morning came and we were up ready but I lost the key and made us miss the baht bus, but we got the next one which wasnt a problem as we allowed plenty of time to get to the Cambodia border and are staying nearby the night in a little frontier town called Koh Kong. The ferry ride back to the mainland was a breath of fresh air after the cramped baht bus ride and we got to stand right on the front of the drive on/off ferry whith its platform down all the way staring at the blue sparkly sea all the way across. A few busses and not much waiting later we were herded out across the border, through immigration and into a taxi with a small gaggle of people all wanting to help with things for a small tip, which in scorching sunshine we were all to happy to let them. We found our way to the Cat Guesthouse and dropped our bags, as usual because we had passed a few swanky places Georgie was not all together confident in our choice of diggs but we went for a wander and had the best prawn tempura ever!!! A little nose about the small town and then sat chatting to the lady that runs our guesthouse who is really nice and friendly, then along came her husband from somerset all drunk and funny, hes a nice chap but not all the ticket!
We got our tickets sorted to Sihanoukville for the morning nice and early so we are just relaxing tonight and using the only 2 computers in town to write this…
// July 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // Koh Chang
With our new plan sorted and us both really exited we got up at a respectable time, threw a leg over our awesome ped and headed off for a quick breakfast and then up into the town at Whitesands beach for dollars for Cambodia and some books about Vietnam and Cambodia to iron out the last details of our plan. We did that and had a wander around a few shops and stalls then rolled back to Nature beach for lunch, swim and sunset… it never gets old!
We decided a nice social drink was in order up at tree house seeing as we were going to be leaving soon and we had made pretty good friends with the people who run it, so off we trotted and got the beers in and just as we did Jason, cedrick and another chap strolled in and came and sat with us. They were all pretty tired and in the same mind as us, a few before bed not too much but the new chap they had met earlier, Ohlak from Khazackstan had other ideas. I was chatting away to Ohlak for a bit about all sorts of shit and it was brilliant Ive never met anyone from Khazackstan before and he used words like “motherland” and called me “englishman” and told me a story about being fishing in the Ukraine and not having a driving liscence, being stopped at the border and having to bribe the official with the catch of the day… A 60kg catfish… of course thats where the drinking started! Not 10 minutes after he sat down there was a bottle of vodka and shot glasses on the table and he was showing us the traditions of his “motherland”… Apart from Cedrick who had to dive the next day we were all knocking the vodkas back and any opportunity he had Ohlak would make a toast and pour some more. It was a complete cliché but so much fun! The vodka flowed and then the buckets started creeping out and Jason saw some Dutch girls he knew and they came over, then the Thais that run treehouse came over and got stuck in too…
Many buckets and lots of dancing and talking of eastern european shenanigans later we said our goodbyes and all staggered back a little worse for wear…
// July 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // Koh Chang
Yesterday was one of not very much at all, Georgie woke up feeling a bit under the weather and it was a bit overcast so I let her lounge about all morning and played the nurse but by the afternoon she perked up so we went on a burn on our beloved moped. As we got further round the sun broke through the clouds more and more, we only went up as far as the main pier on the north of the island, sat on some concrete posts with our legs dangling and just kicked our feet about for a while in the sunshine. For some reason the light was really intense and all the colours of the mainland and the sea were really bright and vivid it was just one of them moments when your not actually doing anything, but you dont have anything better to do and because of that it makes you feel so completely content.
We rode back around the island stopping at a view point overlooking white sand beach to watch the sun start to set and tied to a big water storage tank was a big cow or buffalo… it looked like a cow but had a hump. I walked up to stand on a tank to take a snap of the sunkissed vista when Georgie piped up that the cow was “giving me the eyeball and looked all suspicious”!.. So I peered over and threw my best stare at the suspicious cow only for him to proove us both idiots by dribbling all down himself, thus prooving he was not in fact suspicious but just a normal, stupid cow. But by this point all the talk of crazy farm animals and putting our crash helmets on his hump had lesft us giddy with the giggles so we hit the tarmac and headed back, stopped at the irish pub for grub then back to our shack for a swim in the sea while the sun set over the islands just off shore. It was a beautiful sunset and made all the better by the calm warm water… It was at this point that Georgie took a peek at a cut on her foot that she hadn’t reall payed due attention to and realised it was all gammy and horrible so we hobbled back to the hut and cleaned it up a goodu’n. She was still feeling abit poorly so we popped out for dinner then had a quiet night in with our books and mucky feet…
Today however she felt alot better so we were up nice and early and off to our treehouse for breakfast, we always go there because 1) its damn good food and 2) its so fucking tasty! The only problem with it is there are loads of hamocks about the place so after your done eating you go for a swing and breakfast time has tendancy to bleed into lunch time and so on, but today we were not going to let that happen so we had a quick swing and headed out for foot supplies and and a little burn but then came lunch, it was amazing I was so excited I could have shit myself… I had a cup of tea, a newspaper, cigarettes and a hamock… needless to say we were there for a while.
We saw our friends and had a chat for a bit with them at their hut and watched half a dodgy scary movie in an internet cafe before getting some dinner and drinking some beers, again in the ultimate sea side comfort that is Treehouse…
p.s. Georgies foot is much better and not in fact going to fall off!
// July 3rd, 2008 // No Comments » // Koh Chang
Today has been one of much laziness and it feels good! It started off a little shakey, all the cash points nearby stopped working and Georgie was sitting waiting in the resturant, had already ordered breakfast and spent the last of our cash on the room and as i tried the last cash point it froze for a few minutes which were the longest few minutes of our travelling so far. Georgie was 2km in a resturant with no way of paying probably thinking I had crashed, we had no money what so ever, Toby had left so no hope of borrowing some to tide us over and to top it all off the error message on the ATM was all in Thai… But thank fuck it gave me a choice of two buttons and I must have pressed the right one because it spat the card out and when I got back to Georgie they let us pay later. It did however make me realise that in making our money so secure it also made it a nightmare if something like that happens.
Anyway apart from eating at the resturant nearby and swinging in the hamocks reading the only thing we did all day was ride down to the pier to the south where the ATM’s worked and had some bakery delights for the journey, while I had popped to the loo I walked past the kitchen sink and spotted probably the best view from a sink I have ever seen out across the bay to a strip of golden sand and palm trees framed by green hills and blue skies, it almost made me offer to wash up… But not quite!
The weather is a bit rainy today as well so thats another reason for our lazy mood but we have a good bookshop nearby and nothing but time on our hands…
We do have a rough plan however for after Koh Chang (whenever we get bored) and that is go east to Cambodia and follow the coast until we get near to the Vietnam boorder, then head north to Phnom Penh and from there we will cross the border into Vietnam and go to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
then follow the coast of Vietnam hopefully by train and with Toby after his volounteer work all the way north to Hanoi at which point we will decide on what to do next. Of course this could all change on a whim but as it stands we are both really exited about it and cant wait, at the same time we are really enjoying Koh Chang and there are still plenty of days of fun to be had Im sure…
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