Kiwi Tale of Sihanoukville Island Trip 2010
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Kiwi Tale of Sihanoukville Island Trip 2010
Tim Roxborogh's travel bugs: Getting conned In Cambodia
23 Jan, 2019 12:00pm
A weekly ode to the joys of moaning about your holiday.
"What are you doing here? Nobody comes here!"
Not quite what you hope to hear on a tropical island. It was Cambodia in the year 2010 and though every backpacker knew about Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, the islands off the country's southern coast were something of an unknown quantity.
Like many tourist traps in Southeast Asia at the turn of the decade, the beach town of Sihanoukville was littered with internet cafes, reggae bars and shops dealing in pirated CDs. Some of the latter had started offering a service where you could drop off your iPod and have it returned to you the next day (for an extremely non-legit fee) loaded with new albums of your choosing from a laminated catalogue. It all felt very modern.
Modern in a digital sense but, unlike other quite beguiling Cambodian seaside settlements, such as Kampot and Kep, my friends and I found Sihanoukville in 2010 tough to love.
So when we passed a travel agency showcasing the unspoilt white sand beaches and swanky resorts of the nearby island Koh Rong, we couldn't say no...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/ ... d=12194124
23 Jan, 2019 12:00pm
A weekly ode to the joys of moaning about your holiday.
"What are you doing here? Nobody comes here!"
Not quite what you hope to hear on a tropical island. It was Cambodia in the year 2010 and though every backpacker knew about Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, the islands off the country's southern coast were something of an unknown quantity.
Like many tourist traps in Southeast Asia at the turn of the decade, the beach town of Sihanoukville was littered with internet cafes, reggae bars and shops dealing in pirated CDs. Some of the latter had started offering a service where you could drop off your iPod and have it returned to you the next day (for an extremely non-legit fee) loaded with new albums of your choosing from a laminated catalogue. It all felt very modern.
Modern in a digital sense but, unlike other quite beguiling Cambodian seaside settlements, such as Kampot and Kep, my friends and I found Sihanoukville in 2010 tough to love.
So when we passed a travel agency showcasing the unspoilt white sand beaches and swanky resorts of the nearby island Koh Rong, we couldn't say no...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/ ... d=12194124
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Re: Kiwi Tale of Sihanoukville Island Trip 2010
I hope no-one paid him for that story.
He would have been better off doing a update of Pipiwai,,, everyone's favorite travel spot.
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9CKv ... Vlhlyl3w8-
He would have been better off doing a update of Pipiwai,,, everyone's favorite travel spot.
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9CKv ... Vlhlyl3w8-
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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