More Cambodia

After another lovely day by the beach, where we walked to the end of our beach and back (12km), had another lovely swim in the warm sea and a delicious meal just by the water it was time to move. 

Since the condition of the roads in Cambodia are not always the best, a short travel may take very long time.

We travelled to Kampot, where we changed our van to tuk tuk and traveled 18km on very bumpy roads to a pepper plantation and got more info about pepper than a person can digest, we even got to have a pepper tasting, meaning being given different pepper corns to shed as they are. Something I never thought I'd do. On the bumpy road back we stopped at a salt field, however no salt there that day.

Me and S ended the day with a lovely boat cruise along the Kampot river to see sunset and fire flies. 

Next stop was Phnom Penh. We got there in a very fancy bus, that we almost missed as the pick up from the hotel was very late and almost gave our tour leader a heart attack. 

We stayed in Phnom Penh for two nights. The Water festival was going on, so the city was packed with happy people. Boat races on the river, illuminated boats and fireworks in the evenings and vendors and people all over!! They celebrate that the rainy season is over.

However Phnom Penh wasn’t just joy and happiness, we also visited S-21 (one of the security prisons during the Khmer Rouge regime) and the Killing fields. It was very interesting but so awful! How could this happen, and so resent? Unbelievable!