Sarah facing impending doom from the Venus Fly Trap like plant!


Kampot and Bokor!

After many days relaxing and holidaying by the beaches we set off for Kampot, a few hours drive away in our 'taxi'. Taxis in Cambodia aren't your ABC Cabs you expect at home, no no there Toyota camrys, old Toyota camrys,,,that havent aged well. A possible reason for the not ageing so well is the Cambodians theory of fitting in as many people as unhumanley possible. We had 6 and thought that was too many in the hot, dusty 3 hour trip only to hear and see horror stories of cars full of 8 or 9 people! You can see the poor 4 girls crammed across the back!

Got to Kampot and took a long walk around the dusty town before grabbing a bite to eat and booking ourselves on a tour of Bokor national park the next day/night! Was some amazing scenery and a really crazy little ghost town full of empty and rundown old building that were used by the french, then the king and then most recently the Khmer Rouge! In fact the park was only opened again a few years ago as there were reports the Khmer Rouge guerillas where still hiding out there! Another trek through the thick jungle (with rumbling sounds on either side eek) and some games of cards before the lights got cut at 9 finished what was a really interesting day!

Back down the mountain with 7 of us in our camry over road suggested by Lonely Planet to be handled only by 4x4 and we were off again!