Clemen wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 4:07 pm I think we can all agree that snooky was never a "jewel" a Swarovski maybe.
I enjoyed it's quiet relaxed vibe and nice beaches the first time I visited. The city itself, utterly without charm.
I live there, I love to swim, I think it's been more than two years since I've done so. Why? Because if I wanted to immerse myself in black water I could just jump in our septic and save the costs of new fork seals for my moto. Rip snooky, you weren't the best, or the brightest but you were more than the demented red headed step child you are now.

• "an absolute disaster area" (Travelfish - https://www.travelfish.org/location/cam ... anoukville)
  "covered in rubbish and no-one seems to care" (Southeastasia Backpacker - https://southeastasiabackpacker.com/des ... noukville/)
  "a horrible place [...] Chinese have definitely ruined it" (TripAdvisor - https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g ... vince.html)
  "a nightmare for travelers and expats alike" (Move to Cambodia - https://www.movetocambodia.com/city-gui ... noukville/)
  "a mess of construction, pollution, and casinos" (Nomadic Matt - https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-guid ... noukville/)

cptrelentless wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 9:40 am

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 7:38 am The demise of Sihanoukville: Why we no longer travel there
written by Intrepid Travel January 15, 2020

If you want to see the face of overtourism, take a plane to Phnom Penh and catch a bumpy five-hour bus to Sihanoukville – a once-sleepy town on a little peninsula in the Gulf of Thailand. Sihanoukville is the jewel of Cambodia’s tourism industry. Or at least it used to be.

If you visited Sihanoukville five years ago, you might not recognise it today. The town has been swamped by foreign investment and tourism, mauled by construction. In fact, we’ve just made the difficult decision to stop visiting Sihanoukville altogether. As of this year, it no longer appears on Intrepid’s Cambodian itineraries, which is a terrible shame on so many levels.

We started coming here back in 2007. At that time, Sihanoukville was still a blip on the average tourist’s radar. Serendipity Beach drew a steady crowd of unshaven backpackers, and there were a few bungalows popping up near Otres Beach, but most tour buses still made a bee-line north from Phnom Penh, shuttling visitors back and forth to Siem Reap. Cambodia’s coastline was kind of ignored, especially compared to Thailand’s archipelago, pulsing and flashing just across the Gulf. Sihanoukville was growing, but slowly. If people knew how good it was, they weren’t telling anybody.
https://www.intrepidtravel.com/adventur ... noukville/

Who the fuck are Intrepid Travel? If they started serving Shv in 2007 they were extremely late to the party, rather than the first. They're also two years too late to write articles whingeing about it being a building site. Thank you, next.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 7:38 am The demise of Sihanoukville: Why we no longer travel there
written by Intrepid Travel January 15, 2020
Cambodia’s coastline was kind of ignored
If people knew how good it was, they weren’t telling anybody.
https://www.intrepidtravel.com/adventur ... noukville/

offroadscholar wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:39 pm Facebook apologises for rude mistranslation of Xi Jinping's name
The error, which caused Xi's name to appear as "Mr S***hole" when translated from Burmese into English, came to light on the second day of the much-touted trip where Xi and Myanmar's de facto civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi signed dozens of agreements covering enormous Beijing-backed infrastructure plans.


https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugy6HSWexSL4gZmzDKp4AaABCQ