Sihanoukville, Cambodia

We got to Sihanoukville last Friday around sevenish and caught a tuk-tuk to the most popular beach, Serendipity beach.   Since it's high season the place we wanted to stay was full, so we clambered around the beach in search of another accommodation. We were lucky enough to find a not-so-cheap bungalow for the night. I mean, floors aren't really that important to a room, right? Well, we had been on a bus for around ten hours, so we were ready for some alcohol on the beach but little did we know, we showed up during the full moon party!  Well we had enough of fire dancers, body-glo paint, and drunk backpackers, so we decided to get out of that beach and quick! We left the tourist crowd behind and headed to Otres beach. Otres is quite a ways out of town on a red-dirt potholed filled (though not filled-potholes) road. The beach has around ten little beach accommodations, so we wandered around to each little place before we settled on a place across from the beach for ten dollars a night and we’ve been here ever since. Otres beach has quite a sordid past- It is scheduled to be totally renovated to make room for the big boys in the hotel world. There used to be a bunch for shacks and beach bars lining the beach, but the Cambodian developers have ripped those out so the one’s remaining are doing so on a month-to-month basis, and could be torn down at any moment. We feel lucky to have experienced this little hippie haven while it’s still alive.

 

Here are our bungalows